Hirohito and the making of modern Japan / Herbert P. Bix.
Bix, Herbert P.
2000
DS889.8 .B59 2000 (Mapit)
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Title
Hirohito and the making of modern Japan / Herbert P. Bix.
Author
Bix, Herbert P.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
006019314X
Publication Details
New York, NY : HarperCollinsPublishers, c2000.
Language
English
Description
xi, 800 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number
DS889.8 .B59 2000
Dewey Decimal Classification
952.03/3/092 B
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Awards
Pulitzer Prize, 2001
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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.

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