TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bix,Herbert P.
TI  - Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan 
SN  - 9780062560513
AV  - DS889.8 .B59 2016
U1  - 952.03/3/092B 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Harper Perennial
KW  - Hirohito,
KW  - Emperors
KW  - Japan
KW  - Biography
KW  - History
KW  - Shōwa period, 1926-1989
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 Taishō 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 Shōwa
N2  - A 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
UR  - http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0b9g3-aa
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1308/99089427-b.html
ER  -