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Seagrave, Sterling & Peggy Seagrave. The Yamato Dynasty: The Secret History of Japan's Imperial Family. Broadway: Bantam. Apr. 2000. c.400p. illus. maps. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-7679-0496-6. $27.50. HIST
This popular history of Japan from the mid-19th century to the present weaves together an iconoclastic historical narrative with a mostly caustic view of Japan's imperial family. The Seagraves (The Soong Dynasty) depict modern Japan as a country consistently dominated by a closed financial oligarchy in league with politicians, bureaucrats, the imperial family, and underworld bosses. Democracy is no more than a facade. They portray Emperor Hirohito (who reigned from …