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Why does Japan still have a royal family? | | Published by: rose 2009-01-09 |
| | Japanese royal family members to visit Indonesia::
Nov 21, 2007 The official said members of Japan`s royal family would visit Indonesia in January 2008 and spend a week in the country.
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I thought it had a president like USA but it has an Emperor & Empress.
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If the system is irrelevant, the Japanese people sure spend a lot of money on it. The annual cost is staggering, dwarfing the cost of the British royal family. Yet the emperor does not seem to play nearly the prominent role in representing the state abroad as Queen Elizabeth II.
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On the Japanese royal family website it says the budget is:
¥324.0 Imperial family
¥279.8 Allowance for Imperial Family members
¥6,170.0 Palace-related Expenses
¥11,060.0 Imperial Household Agency Expenses
¥17,833.8
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That's about a 100 million Great Britain Pounds (US $190 million). A book that was published last year says that sum does not include the 1000 man militia that gaurds the palace increasing the above cost by more than 50%. The British royal family claims their cost (without security) is about 40 million GBP last year.
WNYC - The Leonard Lopate Show: The Constricted Life of Japan’s ::
Dec 25, 2008 The Constricted Life of Japan’s Royal Family. Thursday, December 25, 2008. Listen · Add; Comments [1]. Empress Michiko
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News - World: Japan's royal birth a temporary respite::
Sep 6, 2006 Nine consecutive females have been born to the royal family since Akishino was born in 1965. For those reasons, many Japanese see the
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And of course, the palace grounds are possibly the single most valuable piece of real-estate in the world were it possible to sell the land.
Except for nostalgic old people and a few deranged nationalists, nobody in Japan considers the imperial system relevant. It has a peculiar emptiness, it is invisible, it is not part of daily life.
Fukiage Palce, the imperial seat, is in a park in the middle of Tokyo, urban real estate so immense and central as to define the citys daily pulse and rush. Yet it can be seen--bits of it, never the whole--only from a few vantage points on the upper floors of skyscrapers along nearby boulevards. For all its "thereness," the palace is not there at all: It is only suggested.
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