Japan's Imperial Household Agency on Thursday released the official biography of the wife of Emperor Hirohito, posthumously called Emperor Showa, chronicling her 97 years of life that spanned the turbulent period during and after World War II.Taking some 17 years to compile, the 3,828-page record of Empress Dowager Nagako, posthumously named Empress Kojun, highlights the role she played during the war, which was fought in the name of the emperor, and the adaptation to postwar democracy following Japan's unconditional surrender in 1945.While the biography does not include specific conversati…READ FULL ARTICLE