Hirohito and the making of modern Japan

Part I - the prince's education, 1901-1921

The boy, the family, and the Meiji legacies

Cultivating an emperor

Confronting the real world

Part II - the politics of good intentions, 1922-1930

The regency and the crisis of Taisho democracy

The new monarchy and the new nationalism

A political monarch emerges

Part III - his majesty's wars, 1931-1945

The Manchurian transformation

Restoration and repression

Holy war

Stalemate and escalation

Prologue to Pearl Harbor

The ordeal of supreme command

Delayed surrender

Part IV - the unexamined life, 1945-1989

A monarchy reinvented

The Tokyo trial

Salvaging the imperial mystique

The quiet years and the legacies of Showa.