The People’s Emperor

Democracy and the Japanese Monarchy, 1945–1995

2001 • 364 pages

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. Ruoff analyzes numerous issues, stressing the monarchy's "postwarness" rather than its traditionality.

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Harvard East Asian Monographs

Harvard East Asian Monographs is a 54-book series with 56 primary works first released in 1959 with contributions by Kuo-chun Chao, Andrew Gordon, and Alexander Barton Woodside.