Documenting the Life of Emperor Showa
The Real Life of the Showa Emperor" is now on sale.
The first two volumes of the biography of Japanese Emperor Hirohito (posthumously referred to as Emperor Showa) go on sale at Yaesu Bookstore in Tokyo on March 27th 2015. The complete set of annals biography covering the Emperor's life from 1901 to 1989 extends to 18 volumes plus a separate index and is the The books took 24 years to complete. Volume One covers his life from 0-12 years old and Volume Two from 13-19 years old. Further volumes will be published every six months and readers will have to wait until 2019 for the final books in the series.
The official publication of "The True Story of the Showa Emperor," a compilation of the life of Emperor Showa, was released at bookstores nationwide on the afternoon of March 27, 2015, at Yaesu Book Center in Chuo-ku, Tokyo.