Emperor Hirohito
Japan has a monarch (Emperor) as head of state and an elected prime minister as head of government.
The head of state of Japan is the Emperor and he is not elected as it is a hereditary position.
The head of government in Japan is the Prime Minister. The current Prime Minister, as of November 2017, is Shinzo Abe.
The emperor was the head of the government in postwar Japan. This was had assurance of the Japanese people and the US had to comply and helped create Japan's Constitution.
The current Emperor of Japan, or the nation's official head of state, is Akihito. Furthermore, the Prime Minister is Naoto Kan.
Probably a giant penis
The Prime Minister heads the Government but the Emperor is head of state but has no real power.
They had an Emperor and in fact they still have one that is more a figurehead than the head of state.
Tom Coughlin. This was sadly true. He was 67 at the time
Constitutional Monarchy
No. Japan was a monarchy ( still has a emperor as a figure head of state) until WW 2. At the end of the war the United States was in control of the government for several years and it created a parliamentary form of government . This is still the government today. They have a prime minister instead of a president.
The Japanese government is a multi-party parliamentary republic; the US government is a two-party Federal Republic. In Japan the head of government is a member of the legislative body and can loose his formal right to govern based on a simple vote of the parliament. The ceremonial functions of Head of State are performed by another person, the Emperor. In the US the head of government is not a member of the legislature and serves for a definite term, regardless of most votes in the legislature. The head of government also serves as head of state, and so has ceremonial as well as administrative responsibilities.