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Embracing defeat : Japan in the wake of World War II

Author:	John W Dower
Publisher:	New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 1999.
Edition/Format:	Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
Summary:	Discusses how the defeat and American military occupation of Japan after World War II affected each level of Japanese society.
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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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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 Read more...

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