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.
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