| Author: | Field, Norma | Place: | New York |
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| Publisher: | Pantheon Books | Year: | 1991 |
Field, Norma. In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: a Portrait of Japan at Century’s End . New York, Pantheon Books, 1991.
The author, born to a Japanese mother and an American father, describes three Japanese resisters against the emperor system, including Hitoshi Motoshima, then mayor of Nagasaki, whose comments about the emperor's war guilt caused a nationwide dispute and led to an attempt to assassinate him. 日本人の母、米国人の父を持つ筆者による日本の天皇制に関する評論。天皇の戦争責任について言及し、狙撃された本島等長崎市長ほか、天皇制に抵抗した3人の日本人を紹介している。