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is a
Japanese word, meaning
a god who is a human being.This word appears first in
Kojiki, but is assumed to have been used before this
book.
The most well-known usage of this word would be in Japan before
1945, until the end of the
Second World War. In those days
State Shinto (Kokka Shinto) applied this word to the
Emperor and required the Japanese people to obey absolutely and have loyalty to the Emperor as a
god.
In 1946, Emperor
Hirohito was forced in the
Ningen-sengen to renounce the conception of, divinity in human form, and claimed his relation to the people didn't rely on such a
mythological idea but on a historically developed family-like reliance.
Many authors, such as
John W. Dower and
Herbert Bix, consider however that the Ningen-sengen can be interpreted in a way which, while renouncing his claim to be an,
Hirohito didn't actually deny his divine descent from goddess
Amaterasu Omikami.
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