Title Profile & Character Information

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Annotation
In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose sixty-three-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world.
Awards
2000  National Book Critics Circle Awards
2001  Pulitzer Prize


Author Notes
  Herbert P. Bix a professor in the Graduate School of Social Sciences at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo.

GenreNonFiction
Historical
TopicsEmporers
Empires
Empire building
Ambition
World War II
Japanese imperial family
Japanese military
Japanese culture
Japanese history
Japanese society
SettingJapan