Professor Yasuhiro Okudaira notes a misnomer in the use of the word "Emperor" to describe the nation's living state symbol | |
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Yeh, Lindy 15 Apr 2002 | "Thus, for example, Imperial University of Tokyo became merely University of Tokyo" after World War II |
Yasuhiro Okudaira, "Forty Years of the Constitution and its Various Influences: Japanese, American, and European" in Luney and Takahashi, Japanese Constitutional Law Univ | In Okudaira's view, the word "Emperor" ceased to be applicable when Japan ceased to be an empire under the 1947 Constitution |
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