GP 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

GP 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.