Reyhan Silingar

Reyhan’s research explores the transwar and transnational framing of Japan’s “imperial house diplomacy” through a political and diplomatic history of Emperor Hirohito's, as well as other imperial family members', diplomatic missions across the world. Drawing on newly opened archives, memoirs, and primary source materials in Japan, Britain, the U.S., the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Turkey, she aims to contribute to rethinking the historical evolution of the symbolic monarchy, the postwar persistence of monarchical diplomacy, and the place of the ex-imperial nobility in the new, postwar Japanese state.