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In the Realm of a Dying Emperor

✍ Scribed by Norma Field

Book ID
100092481
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Books
Year
2011;1993
Tongue
en-US
Weight
192 KB
Edition
1st Vintage books ed
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1299233430

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

When the Emperor Hirohito died in 1989, Japanese newspapers had to use a special, exalted word to refer to his death, and had to depict his life uncritically, as one beginning in turbulence but ending in magnificent accomplishment. To do otherwise would have exposed them to terrorism from the vigilant right wing. Yet this insightful book by a Japanese-American scholar who grew up in both cultures reveals the hidden fault lines in the realm of the dying emperor by telling the stories of three unlikely dissenters: a supermarket owner who burned the national flag; an aging widow who challenged the state's "deification" of fallen soldiers; and the mayor of Nagasaki, who risked his career and his life by suggesting that Hirohito bore some responsibility for World War II.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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