Japan's imperial family is confronting a sharp crisis of confidence as it searches for a meaningful role in modern Japanese society.

日本皇室试图在现代日本社会中找寻一个有意义的角色，但却迎面遇上一场尖锐的信任危机。

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Especially after the abolishing of imperial examination system, the assimilation of western legal educational concepts accelerated the professional process of modern law.

特别是在废除科举制之后，由于对西方的法律教育观念的吸收，从而对现代法律的职业化进程起到了促进作用。

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Such a pattern of roads was very unsuitable for a modern capital and a modern economy, as the moat and wall of the Forbidden City remain intact and parts of the wall of the Imperial City still stand.

由于故宫的护城河和城墙被完整保存下来，皇城城墙的一部分也依然存在，这样的道路形式对于一个现代的首都和现代经济是非常不适宜的。

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Supposedly superior models in Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan energized throngs and produced modern arms far more than did a Grapes of Wrath America.

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Mr Klarman argues that the framers would not even recognise America's modern government, with its mighty administrative branch and imperial executive.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

The psychopathic national socialism of Nazi Germany, communism of Stalinist Soviet rule and fascism of imperial Japan (whose oppressive bureaucratic machinery has survived well into the modern era) surely bear Weber out.

ECONOMIST: Face value