Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

from jcvogan1

Thorough argument that Hirohito was responsible for the Pacific War. Skimps on post-occupation history. Occasionally feels like the author is stretching the evidence a bit too far.

from Brasidas

Herbert P. Bix's biography of Hirohito excedes that of Edward Behr (HIROHITO: BEHIND THE MYTH, New York, 1989) in depth and nuance. Bix has spent an enormous amount of time among original Japanese-...

from dbsovereign

Upon my first reading it struck me that Hirohito can be compared to the second Bush...both felt they had to do something their fathers failed to do...Also, they both used religious belief as a prop...

from Shrike58

While Bix sometimes wears his revisionist soul on his sleeve, this book justly blows away the concept that Hirohito was little more than a figurehead to the Japanese militarist factions. A must rea...

from Shrike58

While Bix sometimes wears his revisionist soul on his sleeve, this book justly blows away the concept that Hirohito was little more than a figurehead to the Japanese militarist factions. A must rea...