emperorism

The form of government in Japan prior to WWII, with the emperor as head of state.

He called for a restoration ( chūkǒ ) of the true principles ( seiron ) of emperorism and of the bakufu, and reminded the Japanese that it had been long - standing practice of the shogunate to protect the correct theory of imperial authority.

The other portion was emperorism ( tennoism ), an imperial ideology which held up the emperor as the ultimate source of morality and political legitimacy.

Extreme Japanese nationalism before and during WWII, especially support for the policies of the emperor.

It is difficult to argue with much contained in these analyses of the pathology of Japanese emperorism. Certainly emperorism was the value system that provided the foundations of Japanese aggression and bureaucratic fascism.

He was a known supporter of "emperorism," a term used to describe those who espoused others to give up their life for the emperor and to the oppressive military regime.

A belief in or support for the absolute authority of an emperor or similar supreme ruler.

The charge that Keppler made most often in his anti-third-term campaign was that of “emperorism,” a fear many Americans shared.

Anyone who tells you the Chinese government is Marxist is living inside an ideological slogan. It is Chinese emperorism masked by a Marxian moment of social responsibility.

Synonym of authoritarianism.

Wilson and many Americans with him have undergone an ugly development from an honest democratic republicanism to a bedizened emperorism.

We begin to feel like we are again free from the 'emperorism' of a radical element.