In the thesis "Hirohito - the Fall of the Divine Myth" an analysis of Emperor Hirohito's New Year's Rescript is presented. The Rescript was made public on January l st 1946 and ended the myth of Emperor Hirohito's divinity. This event goes back to the postwar period in Japanese history when occupation authorities were in charge of democratization reforms. Unlike their process and consequences, the New Year's Rescript goes unnoticed by many although it also contributed to the rebirth of Japan into a modem state. The purpose of this thesis is to present facts leading to the birth of the political myth of the divine character of the Emperor and its usage in the wartime period as well as details conceming the making of the Rescript, comments fr...
Prompted largely by the illness and subsequent death of the Showa Emperor, discussions have recently...
This thesis examines the motives behind the Japanese imperial household's decision to invite an Amer...
The Heisei Emperor (Akihito) has announced his retirement date in just over a year from now, April 3...
Recent studies of the Meiji emperor, notably those by Ito, Yonekubo and Kasahara, offer new insights...
Scholars of modern Japanese history agree that the em-peror-system served as the key principle of so...
Despite the fact that hakko ichiu ideology was the key device deployed by fascists to mobilize the J...
This dissertation aims to understand the articulation of nationality in postwar Japan by looking at ...
This paper discusses and reexamines Emperor Hirohito’s degree of responsibility in Japan’s military ...
Emperor Hirohito of the Showa era (1926-1989) died on January 7, 1989,after a prolonged illness and ...
Emperor Hirohito of the Shōwa era died on January 7, 1989. The state funeral took place on February ...
Milan Kroulík Exile and Cosmology in the Wider Yamato Court Abstract (in English): The aim of this p...
Myth and mythologization in ideology and politcs. The mythologization of Japanese identity in the Me...
The article addresses the Japanese periodization system, 元号 — gengo:, also called 年号 — nengo:, which...
Abstract. Since the Second World War, things have dramatically changed in Japan, most specially in ...
Okakura Tenshin (1862–1913) became an overnight celebrity in Japan at the outbreak of the Pacific Wa...
Prompted largely by the illness and subsequent death of the Showa Emperor, discussions have recently...
This thesis examines the motives behind the Japanese imperial household's decision to invite an Amer...
The Heisei Emperor (Akihito) has announced his retirement date in just over a year from now, April 3...
Recent studies of the Meiji emperor, notably those by Ito, Yonekubo and Kasahara, offer new insights...
Scholars of modern Japanese history agree that the em-peror-system served as the key principle of so...
Despite the fact that hakko ichiu ideology was the key device deployed by fascists to mobilize the J...
This dissertation aims to understand the articulation of nationality in postwar Japan by looking at ...
This paper discusses and reexamines Emperor Hirohito’s degree of responsibility in Japan’s military ...
Emperor Hirohito of the Showa era (1926-1989) died on January 7, 1989,after a prolonged illness and ...
Emperor Hirohito of the Shōwa era died on January 7, 1989. The state funeral took place on February ...
Milan Kroulík Exile and Cosmology in the Wider Yamato Court Abstract (in English): The aim of this p...
Myth and mythologization in ideology and politcs. The mythologization of Japanese identity in the Me...
The article addresses the Japanese periodization system, 元号 — gengo:, also called 年号 — nengo:, which...
Abstract. Since the Second World War, things have dramatically changed in Japan, most specially in ...
Okakura Tenshin (1862–1913) became an overnight celebrity in Japan at the outbreak of the Pacific Wa...
Prompted largely by the illness and subsequent death of the Showa Emperor, discussions have recently...
This thesis examines the motives behind the Japanese imperial household's decision to invite an Amer...
The Heisei Emperor (Akihito) has announced his retirement date in just over a year from now, April 3...