The current emperor is His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Akihito. He has been on the Chrysanthemum Throne since his father Emperor ShÅwa (Hirohito) died in 1989. The amount of power belonging to the emperor of Japan has changed a lot throughout Japanese history. The Emperor of Japan has sometimes been a cleric with mostly symbolic powers and sometimes an actual ruler. Some believe that the emperor is descended from gods.
He meets Bruno and they become the best of friends, even though they're tâ¦wo completely different people- Bruno is the son of a Nazi, Shmuel is a Jew. Shmuel is the shy, cute, Polish-Jewish Boy in the striped pajamas. His father is a watch-maker, his mother a teacher, and he has an older brother named Josef. Shmuel is a Jewish boy who wears striped pajamas.
The Fury Quotes in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. 1  The The Boy in the Striped Pajamas quotes below all refer to the symbol of The Fury. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one: ).