emperorism

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The form of government in Japan prior to WWII, with the emperor as head of state.

   • The other portion was emperorism ( tennoism ), an imperial ideology which held up the emperor as the ultimate source of morality and political legitimacy.
   • His solution was an educational design based not on Shintoism or Confucianism per se but rather on an eclectic notion of Kōdō—his Emperorism incorporated a mix of Shinto, Confucian, and Western thought.
2. 2

   Extreme Japanese nationalism before and during WWII, especially support for the policies…

   Extreme Japanese nationalism before and during WWII, especially support for the policies of the emperor.

   • It is difficult to argue with much contained in these analyses of the pathology of Japanese emperorism. Certainly emperorism was the value system that provided the foundations of Japanese aggression and bureaucratic fascism.
   • He was a known supporter of "emperorism," a term used to describe those who espoused others to give up their life for the emperor and to the oppressive military regime.
   • Each death in his name fortified the spiritual and psychological appeal of emperorism, ethnocentrism, aggression, and nationalism.
3. 3

   A belief in or support for the absolute authority of an emperor or similar supreme ruler.

   • The charge that Keppler made most often in his anti-third-term campaign was that of “emperorism,” a fear many Americans shared.
   • Anyone who tells you the Chinese government is Marxist is living inside an ideological slogan. It is Chinese emperorism masked by a Marxian moment of social responsibility.
   • He is a jet-setting fuhrer whose advocacy of emperorism in far-flung lands continues to evoke the images of ethnic conquest, of Storm Troopers trampling on the lesser race.
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   1. 4

      Synonym of authoritarianism.

      • Wilson and many Americans with him have undergone an ugly development from an honest democratic republicanism to a bedizened emperorism.
      • We begin to feel like we are again free from the 'emperorism' of a radical element.
      • Emperorism asserts that knowledge comes from top down and making decisions based on rank and power.

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