Word: shogunate
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...other for prime ministers or maharajas. The king wields no political power. As a reincarnation of Vishnu, he is chiefly a religious figure. Real power is in the hands of the Rana family, which furnishes the maharajas. The relationship resembles that in old Japan between the Emperor and the Shogun...
...broad, modern streets, planned after the 1923 earthquake as both thoroughfares and firebreaks, stretched emptily. The squalid, crooked back alleys, so planned three centuries ago by the Shogun Ieyasu for defensive fighting, no longer crawled with humanity...
...better than cattle or horses" under shogun rule, Japan's peasants rose up in more than 1,100 revolts. Similarly, Japanese labor, exploited for ages by the Zaibatsu and worked literally to death by the military, would welcome an enlightened, Allied-encouraged government. "In addition, there are countless numbers of small shopkeepers and peasants who have been squeezed dry for a victory which never came...
...bull-necked southern samurai Saigo, whose revolt in 1866 against the Shogun unified the Japanese clans under the Emperor for the first time in centuries. He later revolted against his Emperor and died the death of an ancient Roman...
...Shogun of Japan, then busy extirpating Christianity with fire and sword, loaded 134 "converted Christians" on a ship and sent them to the Spanish missionaries in Manila with a letter saying: "If it is converts you want, begin with these." They turned out to be lepers, soon spread the disease. Before 1632 there was no leprosy in the Philippines...