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Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World
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Hirohito's Disappointment
The emperor got too much adoration because he was not so imposing interpersonally. He wasn't like his grandfather, Meiji. One of the things that really made him not like him was when the book is talking about how these Japanese soldiers are dying to show West they can sustain this kind of war for a long time. The first original public health system in Japan was encouraged by the military as it saw all their conscripts being undernourished and ill.
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