Hirohito and the making of modern Japan /

By: Bix, Herbert P [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; London ; Toronto ; Sydney ; New Delhi ; Auckland : Harper Perennial, 2016Edition: First Perennial edition, reissued with a new introductionDescription: xliii, 819 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 21 cmContent type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780062560513; 0062560514Subject(s): Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 1901-1989 | Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 1901-1989 | Emperors -- Japan -- Biography | Japan -- History -- Shōwa period, 1926-1989DDC classification: 952.033 .B624 2000 LOC classification: DS889.8 | .B59 2016
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.
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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"Updated with a new introduction"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 689-787) 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 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.

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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