Hirohito: The Shōwa Emperor in War and Peace

by Ikuhiko Hata

This is a most important new work on Emperor Hirohito by one of Japan's leading historians, Ikuhiko Hata. Following the untimely death of Marius B. Jansen (Emeritus Professor, University of Princeton) in December 2000, who had been actively collaborating with the author and translator of the original Japanese edition (Hirohito Tenno itsutsu no ketsudan, first published in 1987 and republished in 1994), it was inevitable that there would be...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1905246358
• ISBN13: 9781905246359
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.9" x 5.8"