Questo autore si concentra su un'analisi più approfondita della storia e dei fenomeni sociali attraverso il suo lavoro accademico. La sua scrittura è caratterizzata da uno sforzo per comprendere contesti culturali e storici complessi.
In 1940, Japan was into its third year of war with China, and relations with the United States were deteriorating. But in that year, the Japanese also commemorated the 2,600th anniversary of the founding of the Empire of...
With the ascension of a new emperor and the dawn of the Reiwa Era, Kenneth J. Ruoff expands upon and updates The People's Emperor, his study of the monarchy's role as a political, societal, and cultural institution in contemporary Japan.