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The People's Emperor: Democracy and the Japanese Monarchy, 1945-1995

By Kenneth J. Ruoff

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2003
ISBN
0674010884, 9780674010888
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
104 MB (109567861 bytes)
Pages
360\360
Time added
2021-10-02 17:11:46

Description

Few institutions are as well suited as the monarchy to provide a window on postwar Japan. The monarchy, which is also a family, has been significant both as a political and as a cultural institution. This comprehensive study analyzes numerous issues, including the role of individual emperors in shaping the institution, the manner in which the emperor's constitutional position as symbol has been interpreted, the emperor's intersection with politics through ministerial briefings, memories of Hirohito's wartime role, nationalistic movements in support of Foundation Day and the reign-name system, and the remaking of the once sacrosanct throne into a monarchy of the masses embedded in the postwar culture of democracy. The author stresses the monarchy's postwarness, rather than its traditionality. The People's Emperor Democracy and the Japanese Monarchy, 1945'1995 Acknowledgments Contents Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction 1 The Monarchy, "66o B.c."-1945 The making of the modern monarchy The monarchy after World War I The emperor system and the Fifteen-Year War, 1931-45 2 The Constitutional Symbolic Monarchy The symbolic monarchy as Japanese tradition Interpreting the emperor's new role The imperial decoration system Contesting the symbolic monarchy Officiallegitimization The "constitutional symbolic monarchy under popular sovereignty" 3 Ministerial Briefings and Emperor Hirohito in Politics Briefmgs under the new constitution and the Occupation, 1947-52 The post-Occupation period 4 Imperial War Responsibility and Apologies Emperor Hirohito's new clothes Emperor Hirohito and General Charles de Gaulle: referents for sanitized memories of the war in Japan and France The right's endorsement of the symbolic monarchy Imperial apologies and the constitution 5 Nationalistic Movements to Restore Cultural Symbols of the Monarchy The Foundation Day re-establishment movement The movement to perpetuate the reign-name system 6 The "Monarchy of the Masses" Hirohito, emperor of the people? The emergence of Crown Prince Akihito An imperial"love match" Backlash against the monarchy of the masses The warm, fuzzy Heisei monarchy Conclusion Reference Matter Notes Works Cited Index Harvard East Asian Monographs

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