change in Public Attitude:
How the Conservative View Cramped the Doctor Influence of Foreign Travel:
Hide-Bound Precedents go by the Board is, Fae Oun Own Connssronvee Tokyo, Mar. 1.
The demise of the late Emperor:
isba and the automatic accession 4 the Throne of his son have Yealed significant new tendencies in the attitude of the people towards the Ruling House of Japan, The funeral proved an excellent} means for showing the sentimental ide of the Japanese character, and the vast crowds present, together with the _solemnly-sublime, old-fashioned funeral rites, impressed fe, observer with the exceptional influence that the Ruling House Japan still wields over the people.
But, at the same time, great changes have taken place in the People's psychology since the Great War and it is far from overrxiiggeration to say that the youn-fei generation to-day no longer ibs tribe seriously or sincerely to} old belief that the Ruler. is divine, Responsible leaders of the nation have noticed this psycholosical change and have used various expedients to counteract it, fication of the Emperor Meiji (the 2 Chief amongst these was the de-'The Traditional View
ate Emperor's father), whilst in yet Inter: times, special attention has been paid to keeping the Throne above polities.
The official conception of th Aivine character of the Mikado is a follows. From ancient times, the belief has persisted—it has been inter-woven into the social fabric of the nation—that the Rulers the country are divines when an} oan. Emperor dies, his divine quality elevated from an earthly state t0 fenly one and the latest to be rated joins his ancestors in pre-aiding over the safety of the Im-Donal Family and of the nation, This is the conservative view, but to-day there is a struggle going on "spetween Conservatism and Progve (Aitvlam. Te might rather be ald {think the struggle commenced folly the precedent-shattering Ye-for the Great War and that it has now reached its climax, The Conservative element still adhere to the: ancient conceptions and this: be-amo clear during the late Emperor's ness.
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