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What did Emperor Hirohito think of Franklin D. Roosevelt? As U.S.-Japanese relations steadily deteriorated throughout the 1930s, did the Japanese emperor do anything to affect the course of events? What role did he play in the several weeks leading up to the coming of the war? What was his perception of the United States as an enemy, of President Roosevelt as its leader?
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© 1992 Cornelis A. van Minnen and John F. Sears
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Iriye, A. (1992). Emperor Hirohito and Franklin D. Roosevelt. In: van Minnen, C.A., Sears, J.F. (eds) FDR and his Contemporaries. The World of the Roosevelts. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21901-8_14
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