Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Bix, Herbert P.

Publication

New York ; London ; Toronto ; Sydney ; New Delhi ; Auckland : Harper Perennial, 2016.

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Description

xliii, 819 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits; 21 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

• Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 1901-1989
• Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 1901-1989
• 1926-1989
• Emperors > Japan > Biography
• Emperors
• Japan > History > Shōwa period, 1926-1989
• Japan

Genre/Form

• History
• Biographies

Note

• "Updated with a new introduction"--Cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 689-787) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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

• 9780062560513
• 0062560514

OCLC

• 958880914
• SCSB-11033598

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library