Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Front cover of the hardback first edition; published by HarperCollins Publishers in September 2000.

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (2000, ISBN 978-0-06-019314-0) is a book by Herbert P. Bix covering the reign of Emperor Hirohito of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989. It won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.^[1]

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^ "Pulitzer Prize Winners: General Non-Fiction" (web). pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2008-03-31.

reviewNew York Times

External links

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan on Open Library at the Internet Archive
at Google BooksHirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
, September 2, 2001Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan interview with Bix on Booknotes

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