| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xi, 800 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references 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. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 13.4 50.0 50409. |
| Subject |
Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 1901-1989.
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Emperors -- Japan -- Biography.
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Japan -- History -- Shōwa period, 1926-1989.
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| ISBN |
006019314X |
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