Stephen Large

Emperor Hirohito and Showa Japan (eBook, PDF)

A Political Biography

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134968770
• Artikelnr.: 43072358

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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