Okay I'll give that "Imperial rule" in the literal term, isn't a good way to put it - but the people were under the full control of their feudal lords, their daimyo, and other terms, from almost the beginning. One of them won and became the Emperor, thus "uniting" them and ruling over all the daimyo's somewhere around the 1600's yea, but my point was not the term, but rather how they've lived - being under "Feudal" rule has no more "rights" and "freedoms" than being under "Imperial" rule. For the average person nothing changed between the rule of a diamyo and having an emperor, they still lived under their diamyo's thumb; they submitted to someone being in power.
I'm going to cut you off here because you are just massacring Japanese history. Next you'll be telling me Godzilla movies are documentaries.
IN short, Japan has always had an Emperor (Tenyo) who held spiritual power and was held to be the descendent of the Sun Goddess, Amaterasu. The real power was held by first Daimyo and then by a Shogun.
Nothing of which has all that much to do with why they don't have our crime rates. They don't have our crime rates because they don't let every asshole who wants one have a gun. It's really, really, really that ******* simple.
Seriously, every other industrialized country has figured this out. Citizens don't need guns. You take them away from citizens, criminals can't get them, either.
Citizens don't need guns.
Yes...the Jews didn't need guns, and 6 million died in the death camps.
Other European citizens didn't need guns, another 6 million, were also sent to the death camps.
The Armenians...didn't need guns either.....and they had the Armenian genocide.
The Rwandan's didn't need guns....and 800,000 were butchered with machets by their government and their rival tribes...while soldiers from the Western powers stood and watched and did nothing.
The Mexicans across our border, they don't need guns, as they are murdered in their thousands by the government and drug cartels working together.....
So many law abiding people didn't need guns....and were slaughtered.....you're right joe...the people who slaughtered them didn't think they needed guns......
The Russians didn't need guns, and Stalin murdered 25 million of them.
The Chinese didn't need guns, and Mao murdered 70 million of them.
The Cambodians didn't need guns and 1/3 of their population was slaughtered by pol pot.
The Okinawans, Phillipinos, and Chinese, and all the other people invaded and conquered by Imperial Japan didn't need guns....and they were also slaughtered......