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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF GERMAN,BRITISH AND JAPANESE MONARCHIES

Research Project

Project/Area Number 07620067
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Politics
Research InstitutionKOKUGAKUIN UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

SAKAMOTO Kazuto  KOKUGAKUIN UNIVERSITY,FACULTY OF LAW,ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, 法学部, 助教授 (70178565)

Project Period (FY) 1995 – 1996
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1996)
Budget Amount *help
¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
Fiscal Year 1996: ¥300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 1995: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
KeywordsROYAL CEREMONY / POLITICAL ELITES / POPULAR DEMOCRACY / MONARCHY / NATIONALISM / JAPAN / GERMAN / BRITAIN / 大衆民主主義 / 発明 / 王室 / ヴィルヘルム二世 / 天皇 / 国威発揚 / 天皇制 / 立憲君主化 / 制度化 / 君主権力 / プロイセン / ヴィルヘルム2世
Research Abstract

This project deals with a comparative study of German, British and Japanese monarchies in the light of royal ceremonial.
It had been considered that royal ceremonies were traditions "invented" and evolved by political elites in the late 19th century. Facing the dangers of popular democracy, governing statesmen tried to devise pragmatic solutions in coping with social unrest and class conflict.
However, the evolution of rituals should not be ascribed merely to "machinations" of political elites. It was one of the crucial processes that a monarchy tried to adapt itself to a newly role in a changed political environment, hence rituals reflected self-images of the public people who accepted royal ceremonies.
Although in each country royal ceremonies were highly evolved at almost the same time, there were so many diversities. International circumstances, personalities of monarchs, or complicated power balance between the monarch and the government characterized each evolution. For instance, the process in Britain was closely associated with a changing political power balance, and a shift of the parliamentarism into popular democracy. Both in Germany and Japan, royal ceremonies had more nationalistic appeal. German rituals were so much influenced by queer characters of William II,while Japanese monarch had less individual power and less influence on shaping Japanese ones.

Report

(3 results)
  • 1996 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1995 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (2 results)

All Other

All Publications (2 results)

  • [Publications] 坂本 一登: "昭和天皇と吉田茂" 年報近代日本研究. 20. (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1996 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Kazuto Sakamoto: The Emperor Hirohito and Yoshida Sigeru, Nenpo Kendai Nihon Kenkyu, Vol.20. Yamakawa Shuppan, Tokyo, (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1996 Final Research Report Summary

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Published: 1995-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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