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Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Harper Perennial, 2016Edition: Updated, reissued with a new introductionDescription: xliii, 819 p illustrations, maps, portraits ; 21/13/4 cm PaperbackContent type:
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780062560513
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 952.03/3/092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • DS889.8 .B59 2016
Online resources:
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 Taishō 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 Shōwa.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Taishō 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 Shōwa.

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.

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