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Japan’s abdication dilemma pits modernisers against neo-nationalists
日本天皇退位的難題


布魯瑪:日本的奇怪之處在於,皇室思想似乎比其保守崇拜者更進步。天皇退位的意願就與保守派的想法背道而馳。

Emperor Akihito has had a good run. As the first Japanese emperor to ascend the throne as a “symbol of the state” rather than as a divine priest-king, he has done much — along with his wife, Empress Michiko, the first commoner to marry into the imperial family — to humanise a secretive, remote and starchy institution.

明仁天皇(Emperor Akihito)是一位成績斐然的君主。作爲首個以「國家象徵」而不是神聖的祭祀王(priest-king)身份繼承皇位的日本天皇,明仁天皇在妻子美智子皇后(Empress Michiko)——第一個嫁入皇室的平民——的陪伴下作出了大量貢獻,將神祕、高高在上和刻板的天皇制度變得人性化。

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