The monarchical system has occupied a very important position in the history of the world, and many countries in both the West and the East are practicing this system, and this system has also shown its relatively progressive side for a certain period of time. However, with the rise and development of the democratic system in the world, the backwardness of the monarchy was slowly revealed, and eventually it was gradually abandoned by many countries. However, in our neighbouring country, there is another country that, although it has long been economically in the developed countries, still retains a monarchy in terms of institutions.
This is Japan's emperor system. Japan has not changed this original imperial system since the establishment of its own state system, and although it has been in power for 680 years since the shogunate was in power, the emperor system has not been outlawed in the storm. Even in the modern period of militarism, and then to the current society, Japan has always retained the emperor system, even if this class has long since lost its original real power, the emperor is still their spiritual belief in the eyes of the Japanese. How exactly this system has firmly captured the hearts and minds of the people is unknown, but is the imperial class really perfect enough to be supported?
Maybe we can see it by looking at their marriage system. Since ancient times, The Japanese emperor has greatly respected the purity of blood and paid more attention to the excellent genes of his successors, which has led to the fact that successive emperors have very strict rules on the selection of wives, which have not changed for thousands of years. If you want to be elected to become the emperor's wife, you must be good-looking, docile and virtuous, which is also very understandable, men always like beautiful women, as a ruler has unique conditions, but also strict requirements for the appearance of the wife, so that you can also give birth to offspring with a good image. However, in addition to the beautiful appearance, the more important thing about running for the emperor's wife is another hard condition, and many people say that they are too perverted after knowing it.
It turned out that this hard condition was to have the blood of the Emperor's family. The reason for this rule is that the emperor class has always insisted that its bloodline is the most noble, and if you want to continue this noble bloodline, you can only choose women from your clan to bear offspring. In order to achieve such a mate selection standard, there are actually not many women available for the emperor to choose, and with the passage of time, there are fewer and fewer women who meet the requirements, so that the emperor in history has seen many marriages that transcend ethical boundaries, some marrying their cousins, some marrying their nieces.
Such an unethical couple's combination also dealt a heavy blow to the emperor's family. The Imperial Family, which has been handed down for 126 generations, has been producing a variety of deformed descendants since modern times, either physically defective or brain-problematic, so that there are fewer and fewer suitable heirs. The previous emperor was the only normal of the brothers, and this one emperor has not had any children until now, so I wonder if this will lead to no succession to the throne in the future?