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eAudiobook
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HOOPLA AUDIO BOOK
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Cover image for Hirohito And The Making Of Modern Japan
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eBook
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HOOPLA E BOOK
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English
Books
2000
Summary 
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.
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Cover image for Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
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eAudiobook
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LIBBY AUDIOBOOK, MP3
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Cover image for Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
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eBook
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HTML, ADOBE EPUB, KINDLE
Language 
English
Books
2016
Summary 
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.
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English
Books
2000-2001
Summary 
In this biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers a look at the enigmatic leader whose sixty-three-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Bix shows what it was like to be trained from birth for a lone position at the apex of the nation's political hierarchy and as a revered symbol of divine status. Influenced by an unusual combination of the Japanese imperial tradition and a modern scientific worldview, the young emperor gradually evolves into his preeminent role, aligning himself with the growing ultranationalist movement, perpetuating a cult of religious emperor worship, resisting attempts to curb his power, and all the while burnishing his image as a reluctant, passive monarch. Focusing closely on Hirohito's interactions with his advisers and successive Japanese governments, Bix sheds new light on the causes of the China War in 1937 and the start of the Asia-Pacific War in 1941. And while conventional wisdom has had it that the nation's increasing fo
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