Constitutional Monarchy of the Twenty-First Century

Professor Naotaka Kimizuka, Kanto Gakuin University, College of Intercultural Studies, earned a Ph.D. in history from the Graduate School of History at Sophia University in Tokyo. He was born in Tokyo in 1967. He is mainly studying British political and diplomatic history of the nineteenth century and comparative studies of monarchies around the world. He has published more than twenty books in Japan, including Her Majesty's Blue Ribbon: The Order of the Garter and British Foreign Policy; Queen Victoria; Queen Elizabeth II; and What is an Aristocrat? He won the Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities (Politics and Economy) in 2018 with his The Current State of Constitutional Monarchy, the Japanese original version of this book. He had been an advisor to the Department of Decorations and Medals in the Cabinet Office and also to the National Security Council in the Cabinet Secretariat.

金塚直隆教授，關東學院大學跨文化研究學院，畢業於東京上智大學歷史研究所，獲得歷史學博士學位。他於1967年出生於東京。他主要研究十九世紀英國政治外交史以及世界各地君主制的比較研究。他在日本出版了二十多本書籍，包括《女王陛下的藍絲帶：裙褶勳章與英國外交政策》、《維多利亞女王》、《伊麗莎白二世女王》和《什麼是貴族？》。他以他的《君主立憲制的現狀》（本書的日文原版）於2018年獲得三得利社會科學與人文獎（政治與經濟學）獎項。他曾擔任內閣府勳章與獎章部門以及內閣官房國家安全保障會議的顧問。