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Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Herbert P. Bix

What did Emperor Hirohito really do and decide in the years of Japan's wars, and who was held responsible?

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Herbert P. Bix

Why read it

  • You will ask how power and responsibility are shared, and who answers for a war
  • You will see how a system can spread responsibility so thinly that no one is held to account
  • You will learn how war can hide political aims and strengthen institutions that avoid accountability

Who it is for

  • Readers of modern Asian history
  • Leaders interested in how accountability fails in large systems
  • Anyone following debates on Japan's constitution and past

Contents

  1. E-Book Extras
  2. PREFACE FOR THE JAPANESE PAPERBACK EDITION
  3. PREFACE FOR THE JAPANESE HARDCOVER EDITION
  4. PREFACE FOR THE CHINESE EDITION
  5. INTRODUCTION
  6. PART 1
  7. THE PRINCE’S EDUCATION, 1901–1921
  8. THE BOY, THE FAMILY, AND THE MEIJI LEGACIES
  9. CULTIVATING AN EMPEROR
  10. CONFRONTING THE REAL WORLD
  11. PART 2
  12. THE POLITICS OF GOOD INTENTIONS, 1922–1930
  13. THE REGENCY AND THE CRISIS OF TAISH DEMOCRACY
  14. THE NEW MONARCHY AND THE NEW NATIONALISM
  15. A POLITICAL MONARCH EMERGES
  16. PART 3
  17. HIS MAJESTY’S WARS, 1931–1945
  18. THE MANCHURIAN TRANSFORMATION
  19. RESTORATION AND REPRESSION
  20. HOLY WAR
  21. STALEMATE AND ESCALATION
  22. PROLOGUE TO PEARL HARBOR
  23. THE ORDEAL OF SUPREME COMMAND
  24. DELAYED SURRENDER
  25. PART 4
  26. THE UNEXAMINED LIFE, 1945–1989
  27. A MONARCHY REINVENTED
  28. THE TOKYO TRIAL
  29. SALVAGING THE IMPERIAL MYSTIQUE
  30. THE QUIET YEARS AND THE LEGACIES OF SHOWA
  31. SEARCHABLE TERMS

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