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Bix Herbert P - Hirohito And The Making Of Modern Japan - Paperback
Bix Herbert P - Hirohito And The Making Of Modern Japan - Paperback
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Description: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize A startling work - - awesomely ambitious faultlessly researched daring in its thesis and profound in its implications." Business Week" Magnificent . everything a political biography should be." Richmond Times - Dispatch This rich and powerful biography is now given fresh relevance with a new introduction by the author that explores how Hirohito's legacy persists in Japan to this day and how US foreign policy in the region in the last ten years is informed by our troubled past with Japan and with Hirohito as a ruler specifically. Trained since childhood to lead his nation as a living deity Japan's Emperor Hirohito cultivated the image of a reluctant detached monarch a fa ade which masked a fierce cunning and powerful ambition. Historian Herbert P. Bix has unearned hundreds of previously untapped documents including the unpublished letters and diaries of Hirohito's royal court tracing the key events of his sixty - three - year reign (1926 1989) and shedding light on his uniquely active yet self - effacing stewardship. Debunking the common image of Hirohito as a pawn in the hands of the military Bix exposes the emperor's personal involvement in every stage of the Pacific War. With rare insight he shows how Hirohito avoided punishment for his nation's defeat and how the Japanese people have struggled to come to terms with this dark chapter in their history.
Title: Hirohito And The Making Of Modern Japan
Author(s): Bix Herbert P
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780062560513
Pages: 880 Pages
Publication Date: 9/27/2016
Category: 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000
Description: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize A startling work - - awesomely ambitious faultlessly researched daring in its thesis and profound in its implications." Business Week" Magnificent . everything a political biography should be." Richmond Times - Dispatch This rich and powerful biography is now given fresh relevance with a new introduction by the author that explores how Hirohito's legacy persists in Japan to this day and how US foreign policy in the region in the last ten years is informed by our troubled past with Japan and with Hirohito as a ruler specifically. Trained since childhood to lead his nation as a living deity Japan's Emperor Hirohito cultivated the image of a reluctant detached monarch a fa ade which masked a fierce cunning and powerful ambition. Historian Herbert P. Bix has unearned hundreds of previously untapped documents including the unpublished letters and diaries of Hirohito's royal court tracing the key events of his sixty - three - year reign (1926 1989) and shedding light on his uniquely active yet self - effacing stewardship. Debunking the common image of Hirohito as a pawn in the hands of the military Bix exposes the emperor's personal involvement in every stage of the Pacific War. With rare insight he shows how Hirohito avoided punishment for his nation's defeat and how the Japanese people have struggled to come to terms with this dark chapter in their history.
Title: Hirohito And The Making Of Modern Japan
Author(s): Bix Herbert P
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780062560513
Pages: 880 Pages
Publication Date: 9/27/2016
Category: 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000