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Description edit
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose sixty-three-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never before has the full life of this... read more
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People edit
- Prince Konoe: Add a description of this character.
- Hirohito: The Emperor of Japan and subject of the book.
- Tanaka
- Kido
- Sugiyama
- Hideki Tōjō
- Sugiura
- Maldno
- Shidehara
- Roosevelt: A President of the United States.
- Saionji
- Yoshida
- Hiranuma
- Shiratori
- Okada
- Yonai
- Keenan
- Shimizu
- Kawai
- Prince Takamatsu
- Matsuoka
- Suzuki
- Yamagata
- Shigemitsu
- George
- Minobe
- Hirota
- Sato
- Prince Kan
- Yoshihito
- Prince Chichibu
- Saito
- Ashida
- Nakasone
- Hamaguchi
- Hull
- Kato
- Aldhito
- Kishi
- Meiji
- Stalin
- Higashilcuni
- Hattori
- Chang
- Hitler
Setting & Locations edit
- Japan
- North China
- United States
- Tokyo
- Britain
- Manchuria
- Germany
- Soviet Union
- Nanking
- Korea
- Manchukuo
- Europe
- Southeast Asia
- Washington
- South Pacific
- Togo
- Guadalcanal
- Okinawa
- Shanghai
- Nagano
- New Guinea
- France
- Italy
- Moscow
- Kyoto
- Hiroshima
- Taiwan
- England
- America
- Greater East Asia
- Peking
- Rabaul
- French Indochina
- Mongolia
- Russia
- Saipan
- Potsdam
- London
- Honjo
- Showa
- Mukden
- Sekiya
- Nagako
- Ogakumonjo
- Yokohama
First Sentence edit
Emperor Meiji's first grandson was born on April 29,1901, within the Aovama Palace in Tokyo.
Table of Contents edit
I. The Prince's Education, 1901-1921
1. The Boy, the Family, and the Meiji Legacies
2. Cultivating an Emperor
3. Confronting the Real World
II. The Politics of Good Intentions, 1922-1930
4. The Regency and the Crisis of Taisho Democracy
5. The New Monarchy and the New Nationalism
6. A Political Monarch Emerges
III. His Majesty's Wars, 1931-1945
7. The Manchurian Transformation
8. Restoration and Repression
9. Holy War
10. Stalemate and Escalation
11. Prologue to Pearl Harbor
12. The Ordeal of Supreme Command
13. Delayed Surrender
IV. The Unexamined Life, 1945-1989
14. A Monarchy Reinvented
15. The Tokyo Trail
16. Salvaging the Imperial Mystique
17. The Quiet Years and the Legacies of Showa
Notes
Index
Authors & Contributors edit
- Herbert P. Bix (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2000
ISBN: 006019314X
Page Count: 816
Publisher: HarperCollins
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2000
ISBN: 006019314X
Page Count: 816
Awards edit
- Pulitzer Prize (2001: General Nonfiction)
- National Book Critics Circle Award (2000: Biography/Autobiography, Winner)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 952.033092
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