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Book Review of When the Emperor Was Divine

When the Emperor Was Divine
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Yes, it's a good book - but please, if you want to know "'what happened during WWII" one should really start with something like "Unbroken" or the other many memoirs of WWII soldiers, including those of the Japanese themselves. Life was horrific under the Japanese for about a quarter of the world's population at the time; what happened to the average Japanese American was of course awful, but context is everything here. The emperor claiming divinity was what was utterly shameful.