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 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]

Much of the information in the book was uncovered by Japanese people who worked with Bix, but publishing companies and press in Japan at the time chose not to reveal the information. Bix stated that he did not want the book to be used as a weapon against the Japanese people.^[2]

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• Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan at Open Library
• Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan at Google Books
• Presentation by Bix on Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, September 15, 2000
• Booknotes interview with Bix on Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, September 2, 2001
• "A Conversation with Herbert Bix". Harper Collins. Archived from the original on 2001-10-25.
• ISBN 978-0-06-019314-0

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