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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
John W Dower |
| ISBN: | 0393046869 9780393046861 0393320278 9780393320275 |
| OCLC Number: | 39143090 |
| Awards: | American Historical Association John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History, 1999. |
| Description: | 676 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. 1. Victor and vanquished -- ch. 1. Shattered lives -- ch. 2. Gifts from heaven -- pt. 2. Transcending despair -- ch. 3. Kyodatsu: exhaustion and despair -- ch. 4. Cultures of defeat -- ch. 5. Bridges of language -- pt. 3. Revolutions -- ch. 6. Neocolonial revolution -- ch. 7. Embracing revolution -- ch. 8. Making revolution -- pt. 4. Democracies -- ch. 9. Imperial democracy: driving the wedge -- ch. 10. Imperial democracy: descending partway from heaven -- ch. 11. Imperial democracy: evading responsibility -- ch. 12. Constitutional democracy: GHQ writes a new national charter -- ch. 13. Constitutional democracy: Japanizing the American draft -- ch. 14. Censored democracy: policing the new taboos -- pt. 5. Guilts -- ch. 15. Victor's justice, loser's justice -- ch. 16. What do you tell the dead when you lose? -- pt. 6. Reconstructions -- ch. 17. Engineering growth. |
| Responsibility: | John W. Dower. |
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Abstract:
Discusses how the defeat and American military occupation of Japan after World War II affected each level of Japanese society.
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