Author: Irokawa, Daikichi
Publisher: Free Press
Year: 1995
ISBN: 0029156653
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: Good
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Description: New book, some shelf wear to jacket. 163 pages. In this landmark assessment of modern Japan, the author looks back over the 70 years of momentous changes encompassed by Emperor Hirohito's long reign. Exploring those years from the atrocities of the Sino-Japanese war and WW2, to the stunning economic and political transformation in the postware period, Irokawa offers his frank and unpretentious views of the ordinary Japanese and the way in which those changes shaped the emperor system.