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Article: EMPEROR HIROHITO: THE GOD WHO FEL TO EARTH.(Review)
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- Contemporary Review
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- July 1, 2001
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Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan. Herbert P. Bix. Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd. [pound]25.00. 800 pages. ISBN 0-7156-3077-6.
Fiction, obfuscation, distortion and perversion surround the life and reign of Hirohito, 124th Emperor of Japan, who died at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, on 6 January 1989, aged 88. He had ruled Japan from the Chrysanthemum Throne for sixty-two years, and was the world's sole remaining Emperor and the very last survivor amongst the infamous figures of World War II.
A number of westerners had had a stab at writing Hirohito's biography. In 1966 the late war correspondent, Leonard Mosley, offered the first real overview in ...