Read more with Japan and with Hirohito as a ruler specifically. Richmond Times-Dispatch This rich and powerful biography is now given fresh relevance with a new introduction by the author that explores how Hirohito's legacy persists in Japan to this day, and how US foreign policy in the region in the last ten years is informed by our troubled past.
everything a political biography should be. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize A startling work - awesomely ambitious, faultlessly researched, daring in its thesis, and profound in its implications. With access to hundreds of previously untapped documents, including the unpublished letters and diaries of members of Hirohito's royal court, historian Bix has traced the Japanese emperor's reign from 1926 to 1989, revealing surprising information about his role in World War II. Description for Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan Paperback.
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