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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 L

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at th

This is a most important new work of Japanese scholarship on Emperor Hirohito, the English edition having been long delayed following the untimely death of dist

The debate over Emperor Hirohito's accountability for government decisions and military operations up to the end of the World War II began before the end of the

Showa - the six-decade period of Emperor Horihito's reign, which began in 1926 and ended with his death in 1989 - accounts for fully half of Japan's modern hist