Hirohito biography bix

"Our emperor is the direct descendant of the gods and rules the state as a living god. He originally dwelled with the gods and is inherently different from his subjects.

That being so, our constitution has a nature completely different from the constitutions of other countries." - Uesugi (Pre-War writer)

"I liken the state to a human body in which the emperor is the brain. There was a question of a 'living god'.

It disturbs me to be called that because I have the same bodily structure as an ordinary human being." - Hirohito (Post-War writing)

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Herbert Bix won a Pulitzer Prize for this book in 2001. He had earned Ph.D's from Harvard in Japanese history and language and was a professor in Japan at three universities between 1986 and 2013.

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Since then he taught in New York State as emeritus of history. His thesis is that Hirohito had led Japan into war and later scripted an account to absolve himself. An endorsement by