What Can We Learn From Japan's Two Most Famous Emperors?

Japan's emperors are, in a sense, some of the most heavily historically documented people who we know very little about. Go Fuku-Kusa is important less for what he did and more for the access we have to his personality thanks to the candid writings of his concubine Lady Nijul. Hirohito remains a complicated subject because of debates around exactly how much responsibility he had for the things his government did in his name.