The People's Emperor

Democracy and the Japanese Monarchy, 1945-1995

Bibliographic Data

ID2895340
AuthorsGreg P Guelcher (Morningside College, corresponding author), Kenneth J Ruoff
Year2002
Volume75
Issue4
Pages610
Publication date2002-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePacific Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0030-851X • E-ISSN: 1715-3379
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/4127364
OpenAlexW2059209581
LanguageEN
Citations received9

In the first full-length English-language study of the in postwar Japan, Kenneth J. Ruoff examines not only its reform during the Occupation (1945-52), but also its evolution in the decades since the Japanese regained the power to shape their and polity. In order to understand the monarchy's function in contemporary Japan, the author analyzes the role of individual emperors in shaping the institution; interpretations of the emperor's new constitutional position as symbol; the emperor's intersection with politics; the issue of the emperor's and the nation's responsibility for the war; nationalistic movements in support of cultural symbols of the monarchy; and the remaking of the once-sacrosanct throne into a monarchy of the masses that is embedded in the postwar culture of democracy

Ancient history · Democracy · Emperor · Monarchy · Political science · Politics · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law

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