Japan's Imperial House in the Postwar Era, 1945-2019, Kenneth Ruoff's 2020 monograph from the Harvard University Asia Center, covers the Japanese monarchy's political, societal and cultural role since 1945 through recent events including Akihito's 2019 abdication, informed by the author's long standing specialist research on the postwar monarchy. Its strength is that sustained specialist coverage through to very recent events. Its limit is that, as with any recent history, its account of the most current developments may be superseded by later scholarship as more archival material becomes available.
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Kenneth Ruoff's Japan's Imperial House in the Postwar Era, 1945-2019, Harvard University Asia Center, 2020, the top tier reflecting sustained specialist research on the postwar monarchy through very recent events including Akihito's 2019 abdication. As with any recent history, its account of the most current developments may be superseded by later scholarship as more archival material becomes available. NotesCovers the Japanese monarchy's political, societal and cultural role since 1945, including individual emperors' roles, the "people's imperial house" remaking, and recent developments through Akihito's abdication and the 2019 succession.
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AuthorKenneth J. Ruoff
PublisherHarvard University Asia Center
Publication Year2020
URLhttps://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674244474
Source Typeacademic monograph
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