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Emperor Hirohito and the Pacific War (Paperback)
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Emperor Hirohito and the Pacific War (Paperback)
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This reexamination of the controversial role Emperor Hirohito
played during the Pacific War gives particular attention to the
question: If the emperor could not stop Japan from going to war
with the Allied Powers in 1941, why was he able to play a crucial
role in ending the war in 1945? Drawing on previously unavailable
primary sources, Noriko Kawamura traces Hirohito's actions from the
late 1920s to the end of the war, analyzing the role Hirohito
played in Japan's expansion. Emperor Hirohito emerges as a
conflicted man who struggled throughout the war to deal with the
undefined powers bestowed upon him as a monarch, often juggling the
contradictory positions and irreconcilable differences advocated by
his subordinates. Kawamura shows that he was by no means a
pacifist, but neither did he favor the reckless wars advocated by
Japan's military leaders.
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