Emperor Hirohito and Showa Japan: A Political Biography

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Routledge, 11 gen 2013 - 272 pagine
Emperor Hirohito reigned for more than sixty years, yet we know little about him or the part he really played in the turbulent history of Showa Japan.
Stephen Large draws on a wide range of Japanese and Western sources in his study of Emperor Hirohito's political role in Showa Japan (1926-89). This analysis focuses on key events in his career such as the extent to which he bore responsibility for Japanese aggression in the Pacific in 1941, and explains why Hirohito remains such a contested symbol in Japanese post war politics.
 

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Series editors preface
The making of the Shōwa Emperor
Japanese aggression and the limits of imperial influence 19261933
The challenge of Shōwa Restoration radicalism 19311937
The Emperor and war 19371940
World war and the imperial will 19411945
The Emperor and the Occupation 19451952
The politics of imperial symbolism 19521970
The Emperor and the imperial institution in late Shōwa Japan 19701989
Conclusion
Notes
Index
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Stephen S. Large is Reader in Modern Japanese History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. He has published widely in his subject.

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