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So the goal of this series is to do something that most historians aren't really comfortable doing,

to investigate the character of a historical figure, in this case Emperor Hirohito.

There are two reasons most historians aren't comfortable with this kind of approach.

First, it involves a lot of historical psychoanalyzing,

reading sources to try and divine a sense of something that's very hard to pin down,

what kind of person someone is.

Those kind of assessments are, by nature, extremely open to interpretation,

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