's a Japanese word meaning a kami (deity) who's a human being.It first appears in Kojiki, but's assumed to have been used before this book. The best-known usage of this word would be in Japan before the end of the Second World War in 1945. State Shinto (Kokka Shinto) applied this word to the Emperor and required the Japanese people to obey absolutely and have loyalty to the Emperor as a kami. In 1946, Emperor Hirohito was forced in the Ningen-sengen to renounce the conception of, divinity in hu… (More on Arahitogami)