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Hirohito and the making of modern Japan / Herbert P. Bix.

Title: Hirohito and the making of modern Japan / Herbert P. Bix.
Author: Bix, Herbert P.
Publication: New York, NY : HarperCollinsPublishers, c2000.

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Description

xi, 800 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Summary

A biography of the Japanese emperor reveals a powerful man who successfully cultivated an image of a reluctant king while manipulating important events behind the scenes for five decades.

Subject

Genre/Form

History
Biographies

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 689-770) and index.

Contents

Part I -- the prince's education, 1901-1921 -- The boy, the family, and the Meiji legacies -- Cultivating an emperor -- Confronting the real world -- Part II -- the politics of good intentions, 1922-1930 -- The regency and the crisis of Taisho democracy -- The new monarchy and the new nationalism -- A political monarch emerges -- Part III -- his majesty's wars, 1931-1945 -- The Manchurian transformation -- Restoration and repression -- Holy war -- Stalemate and escalation -- Prologue to Pearl Harbor -- The ordeal of supreme command -- Delayed surrender -- Part IV -- the unexamined life, 1945-1989 -- A monarchy reinvented -- The Tokyo trial -- Salvaging the imperial mystique -- The quiet years and the legacies of Showa.

ISBN

006019314X

LCCN

^^^99089427^

OCLC

43031388
SCSB-13864648

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Harvard Library