Organ theory of government/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Organ theory of government.

A fundamental question that arose in Japanese governance, while the Emperor was an active Head of State, about whether the abstract state was supreme and the Emperor was an "organ" of it, or if the Emperor was not merely the symbol of kokutai and a godlike leader