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The implementation of the May 3rd, 1947 Constitution of Japan officially abolished the unelected House of Peers - replacing it instead with the elected House of Councillors.

With membership in the house being restricted to only the enobled, it's dissolution effectively ended the purpose of the Japanese kazoku, who likewise lost their titles in 1947.

What if this didn't happen? What if the framers of the Japanese constitution felt it wise to keep the Peerage intact as another intrinsically conservative pillar against potential Communist expansion?
How might post-war Japanese society be different with the noblility still in existence as a political class?

And if survival of the House of Peers is too implausible, what about just the kazoku?
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