One puzzle is why, if Hirohito believed in kokutai and the spirit of Yamato (ancient Japan), did he not kill himself on surrendering, as his loyal prime minister, General Tojo, tried to do?
When its commander tried to arrest a drug trafficker outside the gates of Kabul, the suspect summoned militiamen loyal to a senior minister.
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Luis Fernando Ramirez, the new defence minister, is a loyal sidekick of the president's.
Hardline Khmer Rouge and forces loyal to the deposed joint prime minister, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, continue to resist Hun Sen's rule.
He will be joined by Michel Barnier, a conservative former minister for Europe who is loyal to President Jacques Chirac and currently a senator from his Gaullist party.
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Back in Beijing, Minister Liu surrounded himself with loyal associates.
This loyal praise from Ms Rabin for the prime minister's moderation reflects the public mood.
Mr Kuchma's choice as the new prime minister, Anatoly Kinakh, a loyal ally whose nomination narrowly squeaked through the parliament on May 29th, is best known as a business lobbyist.
"It was a plot whose purpose was to undermine democratic government, to demoralize the British army and to destabilize recruitment, and to cause anguish to the then prime minister of the day and the loyal citizens of the country, " the judge said.
He has more clout having long been a prominent, loyal member of the regime's old guard having served as foreign minister under al-Assad and his late father, Hafez, for more than 20 years and vice president since 2006.
The defence minister, Juan Manuel Santos, one of Mr Uribe's most loyal lieutenants and a possible candidate to succeed him if, that is, Mr Uribe decides not to seek a third consecutive term in 2010 was in Washington for meetings with members of President Barack Obama's cabinet when the scandal broke back home.
And Benny Begin, also once a minister under Mr Netanyahu, has proclaimed a new party of the right, loyal to the Likud's now-compromised belief in Greater Israel, with himself as its leader and candidate for prime minister.
Effective power ebbed away from the presidency and into the hands of the new prime minister, Yevgeny Primakov a former intelligence chief whose background as a loyal Soviet functionary sent a reassuring message to communists and the military.
Since last year, when his efforts to broker dialogue in the early stages of the crisis collapsed, the heir to the throne has been marginalised, muscled aside by hardliners loyal to his 76-year-old great-uncle, Bahrain's prime minister of 40 years and its richest man, Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman.
The defense minister, Admiral Diego Molero, appeared on television to say the military would remain loyal to the constitution.
Several ministers loyal to Mr Mbeki may choose to resign, but Trevor Manuel, the well-respected finance minister, has already said that he would stay.
France's President Jacques Chirac has already pushed his prime minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin , to fall on his own sword, replacing him with the loyal and statist Dominique de Villepin .
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