Bibliograph

Embracing defeat, Japan in the wake of World War II, John W. Dower

Type

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Embracing defeat, Japan in the wake of World War II, John W. Dower

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [565]-650) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Embracing defeat

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

23995439143090

Responsibility statement

John W. Dower

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader AR, UG, 13.6, 47.0, 34818.

Sub title

Japan in the wake of World War II

Summary

Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of documentary photographs, Embracing Defeat is history of the more than six years of American occupation which affected every level of Japanese society, often in ways neither side could anticipate. Dower gives us the rich and turbulent interplay between West and East, the victor and the vanquished, from top-level manipulations concerning the fate of Emperor Hirohito to the hopes and fears of men and women in every walk of life

Table Of Contents

Shattered lives -- Gifts from heaven -- Transcending despair. Kyodatsu: Exhaustion and despair -- Cultures of defeat -- Bridges of language -- Neocolonial revolution -- Embracing revolution -- Making revolution -- Imperial democracy: Driving the wedge -- Imperial democracy: Descending partway from heaven -- Imperial democracy: Evading responsibility -- Constitutional democracy: GHQ writes a new national charter -- Constitutional democracy: Japanizing the American draft -- Censored democracy: Policing the new taboos -- Victor's justice, loser's justice -- What do you tell the dead when you lose? -- Engineering growth -- Epilogue: Legacies/fantasties/dreams

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