Emperor Hirohito and Showa Japan: A Political Biography

by Stephen Large

Overview

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:	9781134968763
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/11/2013
Series:	ISSN
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	1 MB

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

Introduction; Chapter 1 The making of the Sh?wa Emperor; Chapter 2 Japanese aggression and the limits of imperial influence, 1926–1933; Chapter 3 The challenge of Sh?wa Restoration radicalism, 1931–1937; Chapter 4 The Emperor and war, 1937–1940; Chapter 5 World war and the imperial will, 1941–1945; Chapter 6 The Emperor and the Occupation, 1945–1952; Chapter 7 The politics of imperial symbolism, 1952–1970; Chapter 8 The Emperor and the imperial institution in late Sh?wa Japan, 1970–1989; Conclusion;