Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeWith a New IntroductionThis groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito—winner of the Pulitzer Prize—offers a complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose sixty-three-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world, now updated with a thoughtful new introduction by the author highlighting the lessons that this history can teach us when we examine current Japanese-American relations and the United States’s policy in the region generally“Fascinating. . . important and provocative.” —New York Times Book Review