All ruling families have a public history and a secret history. This book is a secret history of Japan's Imperial Family -- the first to include the empresses and princesses. THE YAMATO DYNASTY covers the period from the Meiji Restoration in the mid-19th century with the overthrow of the Shogun military dictatorship, to 2011. Before that the imperial family was powerless for many centuries; most ordinary Japanese did not know they existed. The bestselling authors, Sterlimg & Peggy Seagrave show how Japan's powerful warlords, oligarchs, and gangsters toppled the Shoguns and re-installed the imperial family as a "mask of god" to hide their corruption. The authors reveal for the first time how Japan's princes headed a secret project to loot all of Asia from 1895 to 1945. They show how Hirohito and MacArthur conspired to keep Japan's rightwing regime in power to block communist advances in the Cold War.. They also reveal for the first time that Hirohito's mother and brothers were secretly Christians. Highly praised by scholars, this book is full off astonishing revelations, including Washington's secret recovery of Japan's war loot, never returned to Japan's victims -- including billions of dollars in stolen gold and gems.