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Death and the Emperor: Mishima, Ōe, and the Politics of Betrayal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Susan J. Napier
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In japan in the late 1980s, a society that is arguably one of the most modern, pragmatic, and materialist in the world, the problem of the emperor system initially seems almost irrelevant. And yet the imperial house continues to excite controversy and concern, as is clear in the full-scale media coverage given to an imperial visit or an imperial illness, and this controversy is on a far deeper and more divisive level than would be the case for such ostensible equivalents as the British royal family. The reasons behind this excitement are both obvious and problematic: the emperor is of course tied to the war and the whole complex of emotions that middle-aged Japanese feel toward it, but on a broader level the imperial house is also tied to modern Japanese history as a whole and thus to the conception that Japanese have of themselves in the postwar period.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , February 1989 , pp. 71 - 89
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989

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