is a Japanese word meaning a kami (deity) who is a human being. It first appears in Kojiki (c. 680), but is 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 Shintō) 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… (More on Arahitogami)