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The People’s Emperor

Democracy and the Japanese Monarchy, 1945–1995

Kenneth J. Ruoff

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$24.95 • £21.95 • €22.95

ISBN 9780674010888

Publication Date: 02/28/2003

360 pages

6 x 9 inches

25 halftones, 4 line illustrations

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Kenneth J. Ruoff is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Japanese Studies at Portland State University.

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On the podcast Asia Today with Jeffrey Bingham Mead, listen to Ken Ruoff discuss the monarchy’s role as a political, societal, and cultural institution in contemporary Japan

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