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vivster said:
RenCutypoison said:

If it were to be it'd be up to the japanese citizens.

The Emperor is mostly symbolic at this point, much like Belgium's King, but they were stripped of their powers and part of its symbols by another country.

Self-sovereignty should take precedence over imported ideologies.

And that's how we got Brexit, Donald Trump, China's de facto dictatorship and the various human rights abuses in middle eastern countries. Countries aren't isolated, they affect everything.

Also, I wouldn't call abolishment of monarchy an "imported ideology". More like, common sense.

Once the monarchy has been stripped of all powers, or at least most, it's just a symbol. Scratching a symbol for someone else's "common sense" (going by the idea people want to keep it) would just piss off people for absolutely no actual results.

As for Donald Trump, Brexit, Xi Jinping and the middle east situation (you can add Bolsonaro, Duterte, and a bunch of other stuff btw), people are entitled to their own mistakes. Of course it affects other, but if you forcefully prevent someone from making a mistake, you're just going to delay it for a bigger explosion later on.

People do mistakes for various reasons. You can reason them, pressure them into not making a huge fuckup. But international pressure alone won't fix the problems that led to the said bad decision.

Basically if you don't let countries make mistake, they won't learn from it. Even if this means the international community has to go full damage control for years before the country realizes it's done something wrong, at least you don't let them build up resentment before they still do the said mistake while also hating you.