The New Press, 1999. 676 pp. US$29.95. On the eve of the restoration of Japan's
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II. Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and
John W. Dower.Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. John Dower is probably the best-known historian of Japan in this country. His and disappearing. One of the leading “cultures of defeat" was Marxism. Dower ably explains why most Japanese intellectuals embraced Marx in the postwar years. Some.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II. Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and
John W. Dower,Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (Norton & New Press, 1999), 217,. 372. 2."Poll: Cabinet support at 53%," Yomiuri Shimbun,. January 28, 2003, 2. 3. “Japan-China joint poll," Asahi Shimbun,. September 27, 2002, 9. 3. DURABLE DEMOCRACY: BUILDING THE JAPANESE STATE
Beer, Lawrence W. and John M. Maki. From Imperial Myth to Democracy: Japan's Two Constitutions, 1889-2002. Boulder: University of Colorado Press,. 2002. Dower, John. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. New York: Norton, 1998. Gordon, Beate Sirota. The Only Woman in the Room: A Memoir.
This rueful juxtaposition of images resembles the artful analysis of John Dower's inci- sive study of Japan's social, cultural, and political evolution during the American occu- pation after World War II. Although several scholars, including this reviewer and Dower, have previously examined aspects of the history of occupied
9 Dec 2009 Embracing Defeat by John W. Dower; 7 editions; First published in 1999; Subjects: History, National Book Award Winner, award:national_book_award=1999, award:national_book_award=nonfiction, Protected DAISY, In library; Places: Japan; Times: 1945-
Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing Defeat is the fullest and most important 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

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