Professor K. Ruoff at FCCJ

TOKYO, Japan - Kenneth Ruoff, an expert on the modern Japanese monarchy and author of ''Imperial Japan at Its Zenith,'' speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Jan. 17, 2011. Ruoff, professor at Portland State University, is also the author of ''The People's Emperor: Democracy and the Japanese Monarchy, 1945-1995,'' the Japanese translation of which was awarded the Osaragi Jiro Prize. (Kyodo)

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Professor K. Ruoff at FCCJ

TOKYO, Japan - Kenneth Ruoff, an expert on the modern Japanese monarchy and author of ''Imperial Japan at Its Zenith,'' speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Jan. 17, 2011. Ruoff, professor at Portland State University, is also the author of ''The People's Emperor: Democracy and the Japanese Monarchy, 1945-1995,'' the Japanese translation of which was awarded the Osaragi Jiro Prize.