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Specters of Untimeliness in Postwar Japan: Reflections on the Problem of a Second Imperial Restoration
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- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 48, Number 2, 2020
- pp. 54-69
- 10.1353/dia.2020.0010
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Abstract:
Harootunian discusses how the retention of Emperor Hirohito in postwar Japan continues a form of double time inherited from the Meiji Restoration, a co-existence between the anachrony of the past and synchrony of a contemporary present.