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037 _bHarpercollins, 53 Glenmaura National Blvd Ste 300, Moosaic, PA, USA, 18507-2132
_nSAN 200-2086
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100 1 _aBix, Herbert P.,
_eauthor.
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245 1 0 _aHirohito and the making of modern Japan /
_cHerbert P. Bix.
250 _aFirst Perennial edition, reissued with a new introduction.
264 1 _aNew York ;
_aLondon ;
_aToronto ;
_aSydney ;
_aNew Delhi ;
_aAuckland :
_bHarper Perennial,
_c2016.
300 _axliii, 819 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
_billustrations, maps, portraits ;
_c21 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent.
336 _astill image
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336 _acartographic image
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337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia.
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier.
500 _a"Updated with a new introduction"--Cover.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 689-787) 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 Taisho 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 Showa.
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.
526 _aAccelerated Reader
_bUG
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_aHirohito,
_cEmperor of Japan,
_d1901-1989.
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_aHirohito,
_cEmperor of Japan,
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650 0 _aEmperors
_zJapan
_vBiography.
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651 0 _aJapan
_xHistory
_yShōwa period, 1926-1989.
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_a昭和天皇,
_d(1901-1989)
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