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 friendship between Bruno and Shmuel in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas demonstrates that the basic human need for companionship and understanding is even more fundamental than loyalty to individual culture.ymbolically, their friendship is real as they both confess to the other that neither of them like Auschwitz. Bruno and Shmuel recognize at that moment that their friendship is the only thing sustaining them through the horror of Auschwitz.