caa a22 4500 386405514 CHVBK 20180307112219.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198902 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/2057665 doi S0021911800049676 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/2057665 Napier Susan J. Death and the Emperor: Mishima, Ōe, and the Politics of Betrayal [Elektronische Daten] [Susan J. Napier] 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. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 The Journal of Asian Studies Cambridge University Press 48/1(1989-02), 71-89 0021-9118 48:1<71 1989 48 JAS https://doi.org/10.2307/2057665 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/2057665 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Napier Susan J. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Asian Studies Cambridge University Press 48/1(1989-02), 71-89 0021-9118 48:1<71 1989 48 JAS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge