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Though one of the most hated World War II leaders, together with Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini, no one has ever written a full-length biography of ... More

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Hoyt shows that, contrary to most historical opinion, Hirohito was a man of peaceful intentions and good will caught up in a turbulent time of ... More

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In this landmark exploration, one of Japan's most widely-read historians looks back over the past 70 years of his country's history. Examining the ... More

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The death of Emperor Hirohito in 1989 ended Japan's Showa era (1926 1989) and provided the occasion for the Japanese to confront their past and the ... More

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Showa, Japanese for 'radiant peace', was the name given to Emperor Hirohito's reign at his accession in 1926. This was the beginning of a significant ... More

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An explosive reinterpretation of the history of 20th century Japanese expansionism, Hirohito goes beyond the myth of the remote figurehead and shows ... More

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The blame for a country's mistakes often falls on its leaders. In some cases, however, a leader's greatest mistake is to promote the mistaken goals ... More

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A biography of the Japanese emperor who, following World War II, approved a constitution that changed his role from divine ruler to "symbol of the ... More

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The reign of Emperor Hirohito-the Showa era-is synonymous with the history of twentieth-century Japan. That history is told here by one of Japan's ... More

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A biography of the Japanese emperor who began his long reign as a divine ruler and, after the devastating defeat of World War II, accepted his new ... More

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Few historical subjects have aroused as much passionate debate as the Showa Emperor, Hirohito. This book, based on extensive research in Japanese and ... More

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The first and only history of Japan's once mighty military machine--a 70-year chronicle of astonishing military prowess and appalling barbarism. ... More

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"Yamamoto" is an exhaustively researched and compelling biography of the Japanese Naval genius and war hero Isoroku Yamamoto, "the Architect of the ... More

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Written by Martin Caidin from Saburo Sakai's own memoirs and journalist Fred Saito's extensive interviews with the World War II fighter pilot, ... More

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Saburo Sakai was a professional warrior dedicated to the fine yet deadly art of aerial combat. This is his story, the firsthand, full-throttle ... More

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Takeyama Michio, the author of Harp of Burma, was thirty-seven in 1941, the year of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Husband, father of children ... More

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This magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning history, told primarily from the Japanese viewpoint, traces the dramatic fortunes of the Empire of the Sun ... More

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This collection of diaries gives readers a powerful, firsthand look at the effects of the Pacific War on eight ordinary Japanese. Immediate, vivid, ... More

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