Genro

He meant that Lula’s support was an advantage but in Genro’s words:

14 posts from February 2009 2009

He meant that Lula’s support was an advantage but in Genro’s words:

False friends 2009

He meant that Lula’s support was an advantage but in Genro’s words:

False friends 2009

In other words, a passive monarch, not interfe -- no -- able and not intervening in the political process which is being conducted by elders, Genro, as they were called.

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan 2001

The Genro have no constitutional existence; they are merely the people who have the ear of the Mikado.

The Problem of China Bertrand Russell 1921

They were represented politically by five men, the Genro or Elder Statesmen, who are sometimes miscalled the Privy Council.

The Problem of China Bertrand Russell 1921

The Prime Minister and his Cabinet are presented to the world as the Japanese Government, but the real Government is the Genro, or Elder Statesmen, and their successors, of whom I shall have more to say in the next chapter.

The Problem of China Bertrand Russell 1921

Genro are the real Government of Japan, and will presumably remain so until the Mikado is captured by some other clique.

The Problem of China Bertrand Russell 1921

Indeed there have been occasions when the Genro, in spite of popular fury, has saved the nation from mistakes which it would certainly have committed if the Government had been democratic.

The Problem of China Bertrand Russell 1921

In Russia there was revolution; in Japan there were riots, furious diatribes in the Press, and a change of Government -- of the nominal Government, that is to say, for the Genro continued to be the real power throughout.

The Problem of China Bertrand Russell 1921