Emperor of Japan

Head of state of Japan

The emperor of Japan is a constitutionally privileged position established for the hereditary monarch of Japan. Although not being the constitutional head of state, the emperor carries many functions similar to the constitutional monarchs of other countries and remains Japan's internationally recognized head of state. The Imperial Household Law governs the line of imperial succession. Pursuant to his constitutional role as a national symbol, and in accordance with rulings by the Supreme Court of Japan, the emperor is personally immune from prosecution. By virtue of his position as the head of the Imperial House, the emperor is also recognized as the head of the Shinto religion, which holds him to be the direct descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu. According to tradition, the office of emperor was created in the 7th century BC, but the first historically verifiable emperors appear around the 5th or 6th centuries AD.

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