| Edition |
First Perennial edition. |
| Description |
xi, 814 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps. ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [689]-784) and index. |
| Summary |
In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose sixty-three-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. |
| Contents |
Part I - the prince's education, 1901-1921 -- Boy, the family, and the Meiji legacies -- Cultivating an emperor -- Confronting the real world -- Part II - the politics of good intentions, 1922-1930 -- Regency and the crisis of Taisho democracy -- New monarchy and the new nationalism -- Political monarch emerges -- Part III - his majesty's wars, 1931-1945 -- Manchurian transformation -- Restoration and repression -- Holy war -- Stalemate and escalation -- Prologue to Pearl Harbor -- Ordeal of supreme command -- Delayed surrender -- Part IV - the unexamined life, 1945-1989 -- Monarchy reinvented -- Tokyo trial -- Salvaging the imperial mystique -- Quiet years and the legacies of Showa. |
| 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 |
0060931302 paperback $18.00 |
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9780060931308 paperback |
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