Emperor Hirohito and Showa Japan: A Political Biography
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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Emperor Hirohito and Showa Japan: A Political Biography
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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Emperor Hirohito and Showa Japan: A Political Biography

Emperor Hirohito and Showa Japan: A Political Biography

by Stephen Large
Emperor Hirohito and Showa Japan: A Political Biography

Emperor Hirohito and Showa Japan: A Political Biography

by Stephen Large

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781138009110
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 07/17/2014
Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Series editor's preface ix

Acknowledgements xi

Introduction 1

1 The making of the Showa Emperor 15

2 Japanese aggression and the limits of imperial influence, 1926-1933 33

3 The challenge of Showa Restoration radicalism, 1931-1937 56

4 The Emperor and war, 1937-1940 76

5 World war and the imperial will, 1941-1945 102

6 The Emperor and the Occupation, 1945-1952 132

7 The politics of imperial symbolism, 1952-1970 161

8 The Emperor and the imperial institution in late Showa Japan, 1970-1989 180

Conclusion 204

Notes 223

Bibliography 231

Index 242

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