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天皇 is literally "heavenly king", and the full Japanese WW2 war cry was 天皇陛下万歳 Tennou heika banzai, "May the Emperor live ten thousand years". So yes, the impli
by dustintrex 5y ago
天皇 is literally "heavenly king", and the full Japanese WW2 war cry was 天皇陛下万歳 Tennou heika banzai, "May the Emperor live ten thousand years". So yes, the implications are pretty martial, although the Emperors themselves don't sully themselves with actual fighting.
- Aeolun 5y agoYeah, and “For king and country!” Is not? I’m not sure what you are trying to say. Obviously war cries are going to be, well, martial. I don’t see anyone shouting that now, and even if they did there wouldn’t be any martial connotations.
- dustintrex 5y agoGP was suggesting that emperor/天皇 may not have martial connotations in Japan, I'm pointing out that it does. As a perhaps better example, Japan's official name is now the bland State of Japan 日本国, and the old Great Japanese Empire 大日本帝国 sounds positively jingoistic. And FWIW, it's not particularly hard to find fringe groups in Tokyo that proclaim their devotion to the Emperor from black vans equipped with loudspeakers.
- Bayart 5y ago>So yes, the implications are pretty martial The implications of these terms are spiritual, cosmogonic and social. I don't see what's martial about calling the big guy heavenly king or to wish "ten thousand years", all the more so that the later is a Chinese stock phrase and Japan imported their governance model part and parcel. If the Australian army went to war at the cries of "Vegemite or death !", would you say Vegemite has martial implications ?