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Author(s): Ben-Ami Shillony, (editor)
ISBN(s): 9789004168220, 9004168222
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 3.15 MB
Year: 2008
Language: english
SKU: EB-50447022 Category: Tags: ,

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ISBN 10:  9004168222

ISBN 13: 978-9004168220

Author: Ben-Ami Shillony

The book offers a fascinating picture of the four emperors of modern Japan, their institution, their personalities and their impact on the history of their country. Leading scholars from Japan and other countries have contributed essays which treat this subject from various angles.
 

Table of contents: 

PART ONE – GENERAL THEMES

  1. The Strange Survival and Its Modern Significance (Imatani Akira)

  2. The Way of Revering the Emperor: Imperial Philosophy and Bushido in Modern Japan (Christopher Goto-Jones)

  3. State Shinto and Emperor Veneration (Shimazono Susumu)

  4. Ise Jingu and Modern Emperorship (Rosemarie Bernard)

  5. The Emperor and the Left in Interwar Japan (Rikki Kersten)

  6. Conservative Dissatisfaction with the Modern Emperors (Ben-Ami Shillony)

  7. Emperors and Christianity (Ben-Ami Shillony)

  8. The Unreciprocated Gaze: Emperors and Photography (Julia Adeney Thomas)

PART TWO – INDIVIDUAL EMPERORS AND EMPRESSES

  1. The “Great Emperor” Meiji (Hara Takeshi)

  2. Taisho: An Enigmatic Emperor and His Influential Wife (Hara Takeshi)

  3. Empress Nagako and the Family State (Sally A. Hastings)

  4. Axes to Grind: The Hirohito War Guilt Controversy in Japan (Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi)

  5. The Emperor in the Constitutional Debate (Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti)

  6. Akihito and the Problem of Succession (Takahashi Hiroshi)

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