Editing Hirohito (section)

===Books and academic journals===
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* {{cite book |last=Behr |first=Edward |year=1989 |title=Hirohito: Behind the Myth |location=New York |publisher=Villard |isbn=9780394580722}} A controversial book that posited Hirohito as a more active protagonist of World War II than publicly portrayed; it contributed to the re-appraisal of his role.
* {{cite book |last=Bix |first=Herbert P. |author-link=Herbert Bix |title=Hirohito And The Making Of Modern Japan |year=2000 |publisher=Harper |isbn=978-0-06-019314-0 |title-link=Hirohito And The Making Of Modern Japan}} Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography.<!-- Non-template Bix sfns are likely to this edition -->
** {{cite book |last=Bix |first=Herbert P. |title=Hirohito and the making of modern Japan |year=2001 |publisher=Perennial |location=New York |isbn=978-0060931308 |edition=1st Perennial |type=Book |url=https://archive.org/details/hirohitomakingof00herb}}
** {{cite book |last=Bix |first=Herbert |title=Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan |publisher=Harper Perennial |date=2016}}
* {{cite book |last=Dower |first=John W. |author-link=John W. Dower |title=Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II |url=https://archive.org/details/embracingdefeatj00dowe |url-access=registration |date=1999 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |isbn=978-0-393-32027-5}} awarded Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award.
* {{cite book |last=Drea |first=Edward J. |title=In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army |year=1998 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |isbn=978-0-8032-1708-9 |chapter=Chasing a Decisive Victory: Emperor Hirohito and Japan's War with the West (1941–1945) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181112141517/https://www.questia.com/library/91972030/in-the-service-of-the-emperor-essays-on-the-imperial |archive-date=12 November 2018 |chapter-url=https://www.questia.com/library/91972030/in-the-service-of-the-emperor-essays-on-the-imperial |via=Archived copy}}
* Fujiwara, Akira, ''Shōwa Tennō no Jū-go Nen Sensō (Shōwa Emperor's Fifteen-year War)'', Aoki Shoten, 1991. {{ISBN|4-250-91043-1}} (based on the primary sources)
* {{cite book |last=Hidenari |first=Terasaki |title=Shōwa tennō dokuhakuroku |trans-title=Emperor Showa's Monologue |publisher=Bungei Shūnjusha |year=1991 |language=ja}}
* {{cite book |author=Edwin Palmer Hoyt |title=Hirohito: The Emperor and the Man |year=1992 |publisher=Praeger Publishers |isbn=978-0-275-94069-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/hirohitoemperora00hoyt}}
* {{cite book |author=Toshiaki Kawahara |title=Hirohito and His Times: A Japanese Perspective |year=1990 |publisher=Kodansha America |isbn=978-0-87011-979-8 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/hirohitohistimes0000kawa}}
* Laquerre, Paul-Yanic ''Showa: Chronicles of a Fallen God'', {{ISBN|978-1729431597}} {{ASIN|B00H6W4TYI}}
* Mosley, Leonard ''Hirohito, Emperor of Japan'', Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1966. {{ISBN|1-111-75539-6|1-199-99760-9}}, The first full-length biography, it gives his basic story.
* Pike, Francis. ''Hirohito's War: The Pacific War, 1941–1945'' (2016) 1208pp.
* {{cite book |last=Ponsonby-Fane |first=Richard Arthur Brabazon |title=The Imperial House of Japan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SLAeAAAAMAAJ |year=1959 |publisher=Ponsonby Memorial Society}}
* {{cite journal |last=Wakabayashi |first=Bob Tadashi |title=Emperor Hirohito on Localized Aggression in China |url=http://chinajapan.org/articles/04.1/04.1wakabayashi4-27.pdf |url-status=dead |journal=Sino-Japanese Studies |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=4–27 |year=1991 |access-date=3 February 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721021647/http://chinajapan.org/articles/04.1/04.1wakabayashi4-27.pdf |archive-date=21 July 2011}}
* {{cite book |last=Wetzler |first=Peter |title=Hirohito and War: Imperial Tradition and Military Decision Making in Prewar Japan |year=1998 |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |isbn=978-0-8248-1925-5}}
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