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050 0 0 _aDS889.8
_b.B59 2016
082 0 4 _a952.03/3/092
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100 1 _aBix, Herbert P.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aHirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
250 _aUpdated, reissued with a new introduction.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bHarper Perennial,
_c2016.
300 _axliii, 819 p
_billustrations, maps, portraits ;
_c21/13/4 cm
_fPaperback
336 _atext
_btxt
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336 _astill image
_bsti
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336 _acartographic image
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337 _aunmediated
_bn
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338 _avolume
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _tPart I -- The prince's education, 1901-1921 --
_tThe boy, the family, and the Meiji legacies --
_tCultivating an emperor --
_tConfronting the real world --
_tPart II -- The politics of good intentions, 1922-1930 --
_tThe regency and the crisis of Taishō democracy --
_tThe new monarchy and the new nationalism --
_tA political monarch emerges --
_tPart III -- His majesty's wars, 1931-1945 --
_tThe Manchurian transformation --
_tRestoration and repression --
_tHoly war --
_tStalemate and escalation --
_tPrologue to Pearl Harbor --
_tThe ordeal of supreme command --
_tDelayed surrender --
_tPart IV -- The unexamined life, 1945-1989 --
_tA monarchy reinvented --
_tThe Tokyo trial --
_tSalvaging the imperial mystique --
_tThe quiet years and the legacies of Shōwa.
520 _aA 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.
600 0 4 _6880-02
_aHirohito,
_cEmperor of Japan,
_d1901-1989.
650 0 _aEmperors
_zJapan
_vBiography.
651 0 _aJapan
_xHistory
_yShōwa period, 1926-1989.
856 4 2 _3Book review (H-Net)
_uhttp://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0b9g3-aa
856 4 2 _3Contributor biographical information
_uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1308/99089427-b.html
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