>>25744357Not positive if these are super good, but I think the first is probably good at least.
First would be "Hirohito and the making of Modern Japan" since it covers his reign all the up to 1989, and the second would be "Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II," which is directly based on that question.
As for the "why did Japanese people end up so 'beta,'" I can't answer that easily, but I will say that the Imperial Japanese tradition of
>Real manly men fucking kill themselves if they lose or don't get their wayprobably didn't end up being a tradition that shaped many strong men who would lead their country
