Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Title: Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan Author: Herbert P Bix ISBN: 9780062560513 Publisher: Harper Perennial Published: 2016 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: Used: Very Good H 1628245 Publisher 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 cult