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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. Pulitzer Prize, General Nonfiction, 2000. |
| 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:
This work draws on a range of Japanese sources to show how shattering defeat in World War II, followed by over six years of military occupation, affected every level of Japanese society. It chronicles the material and psychological impact of defeat and the emergence of dynamic countercultures.
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- Japan -- History -- 1945-
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- Bezettingen.
- Politieke hervormingen.
- Sociale hervormingen.
- Tweede Wereldoorlog.
- Gevolgen.
- Seconde Guerre mondiale (1939-1945)
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- 1945-1949.
- Démocratie.
- Occupation américaine.
- Relations interculturelles.
- Japon.
- États-Unis.
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