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Reflections on the Remaking of the Imperial Image in the Reiwa Era and Japanese Democracy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Medoruma Shun ,
Watanabe Osamu ,
Kihara Satoru ,
Satoko Oka Norimatsu ,
Steve Rabson  and
Lawrence Repeta
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We introduce Medoruma Shun, an Akutagawa-Award winning Okinawan author, Watanabe Osamu, a constitutional scholar in Tokyo, Kihara Satoru, a freelance journalist in Fukuyama, Hiroshima, and Satoko Oka Norimatsu, an Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus editor as rare voices of dissent over the media hype concerning the changeover of the Japanese emperor and adoption of the new era name Reiwa.

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Research Article
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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 17 , Issue 17 , September 2019 , e3
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Copyright © The Authors 2019

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Notes

1 “Hatsu no kokusho, Man'yōshū shutten – Chūgoku koten fumae,” Tokyo Shimbun, April 2, 2019, p. 1.

2 Abe Shinzo, “On the New Era Name ‘Reiwa’,” Prime Minister of Japan and His Cabinet, April 1, 2019.

3 Akihito, “Address by His Majesty the Emperor on the Occasion of the Commemoration Ceremony of the Thirtieth Anniversary of His Majesty the Emperor's Accession to the Throne (February 24, 2019),” The Imperial Household Agency. The official translation has “people of Japan” as the translation of “Nippon-jin” that Akihito used in his speech, but it would be more accurate to translate this as “the Japanese people.”