Word: emperors
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...accessed site. The bulletin board wasn't meant to be a soapbox for deranged malcontents but rather a rare haven for Japanese to discuss normally taboo subjects, like the yakuza, the royal family and discrimination against Koreans?topics the mainstream media either sanitizes or simply won't touch. "The Emperor is a war criminal. How is it that we haven't yet done away with the Imperial system?" asks an outspoken visitor to the history page. "In Japan, the press has had a monopoly over information," says Tomofumi Akiyama, a lawyer who specializes in multimedia law. "The Internet has opened...
...getting attention," says Takao Toshikawa, editor of a political newsletter. "But the attention on himself is all he cares about." Minoru Chino, president of a Nagano bank and a Tanaka campaign booster, recently told a national news magazine: "I've got the impression Tanaka is now becoming the Emperor who has no clothes." Even some loyalists are turning heel. "Governor Tanaka is like Mount Fuji," says Yoshitaka Sugihara, an aide who recently quit. "If you see it from a long distance it's very beautiful, but once you climb it, there are lots of rocks and rubbish...
...later images cast light on how Cleopatra's reputation was sullied in Rome after Octavian (later to become the emperor Augustus) defeated Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C. A marble relief, part of a frieze replete with symbols of Egypt and the Mediterranean, depicts a couple engaging in sexual intercourse aboard a boat. And a terracotta oil lamp shows a female figure, amid a Nile-like landscape, squatting on a phallus atop a crocodile. To the poet Lucan, she was a "wanton daughter" of Macedonian kings...
...Following Octavian's conquest of Egypt, Antony's suicide-by falling on his sword-and then Cleopatra's-perhaps with the help of the asp of legend, if not a cobra-the new emperor ordered that all statues of Cleopatra be destroyed. Most of the surviving images depict a figure with a voluptuous body and a strong face, masculine in its features, emphasizing power. Representations from old coins, particularly rare Greek ones, have helped to identify Cleopatra in marble and limestone sculptures. So, too, did the tiniest item on display-a 1.3-cm blue glass intaglio bearing Cleopatra's profile...
...Coburg, forced from the throne in 1946 at the age of nine, is running for parliament and could conceivably become Prime Minister?and maybe King once more. In Japan last week, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi announced he was in favor of ditching a centuries-old tradition that requires the Emperor to be a man. "Personally," he told reporters, "I think a female Emperor is fine." More than fine, we'd say. Fine-acious! In fact, we think some other statutes should be passed to bring the world's royals into a more modern world...