Wikipedia's article on the Emperor of Japan, read directly for this pass, which states that under the Meiji Constitution of 1889 the Emperor held sovereign power in his own right, and that the 1947 Constitution transferred sovereignty to the Japanese people and defined the Emperor as a symbol of the state with no governing power. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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A community-edited tertiary reference, not peer-reviewed, but the Meiji Constitution's sovereign-Emperor provisions and the 1947 Constitution's Article 1 are settled, uncontested constitutional history. NotesCited for the Meiji Constitution of 1889's sovereign-Emperor status, a prior state the 1947 legal-status fact does not itself narrate.
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PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_of_Japan
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Source Emperor of Japan (Wikipedia)
Claims Backed By This Source (8 claims)
This source backs 8 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds.
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- Sources, 7 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Religious Offices, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.
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