Perhaps all you folks who know Japanese can answer a question for me: Is it true that the Japanese language contains a special form of the pronoun "you", just for addressing the emperor? If so, how/when is that pronoun used today?
I don't know about 2nd person pronoun for the emperor, but the 1st person pronoun the emperor historically used when dealing with his subjects was "chin".
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