Showa: The Japan of Hirohito

ISBN-10
0393029840
ISBN-13
9780393029840
Category
Japan
Pages
315
Language
English
Published
1990
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Authors
Carol Gluck, Stephen Richards Graubard

Description

Showa - the six-decade period of Emperor Horihito's reign, which began in 1926 and ended with his death in 1989 - accounts for fully half of Japan's modern history. It was a turbulent time of aggressive and catastrophic war, defeat and foreign occupation, domestic transformation and spectacular growth. The end of Showa provided and occasion for the Japanese to confront their past and the roots of their present success.

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