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Modern History Figures in East Asia

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Emperor Hirohito

1901–1989Japan

He presided over Japan's most aggressive imperial expansion, accepted its most complete defeat, and then spent the next forty years as a constitutional figurehead — and nobody could quite agree how much responsibility he bore.

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