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

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
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