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In modern Japan, particularly prior to Japan's defeat in the Pacific war, an exceedingly strong feeling of veneration for the emperor was widespread among the Japanese people, and this provided the foundation for the emperor system, a political system whereby the state had made the emperor the ultimate source of authority. Although the political system changed as a result of defeat in the war, respect and affection for the emperor and the imperial household can be found among a considerably large proportion of the nation even to the present day. Whence come these feelings towards the emperor held by the people of modern Japan? The notion that governments of the modern period have succeeded in producing such feelings where no such feelings had existed before is, surely, as unrealistic as the notion that the common people of pre-modern times already entertained the concept of a "line of emperors from ages eternal." There must be both continuity and discontinuity in the evolution of the thought and attitudes of the common people with regard to the emperor from the premodern to the modern period. How did these thoughts and attitudes evolve? This essay will

The formation of emperor worship in the New Religions: The case of Fujidō