Synopsis
This history of Japan's royal family explores the role that the family and its associates played in the social, political, and economic life of Japan in the 19th and 20th centuries. It investigates the extent to which these anachronistic networks of power still exist and how they hinder Japan's full participation in modern-day international relations.

Details
Publication Date:	2000-04-01

Size
Length:	394 pages
Height:	9.5 in
Width:	6.5 in
Thickness:	1.5 in
Weight:	25.6 oz

Publisher's Note
An intriguing portrait of the world's longest-reigning dynasty offers a provocative look at the shoguns, emperors, and financiers who have secretly controlled Japan, bringing to light controversial facts about members of the Yamoto family and how their actions have affected the past, present, and future of the world's second largest industrial power. $25,000 ad/promo.

Industry Reviews
"With gusto, [Seabrook] details political intrigues, also clearly relishing personal idiosyncrasies...[but] In the main, the mediocrity of these Japanese rulers was such that even Seabrook's swashbuckling prose cannot rescue them."
Birnbaum