Embracing Defeat : Japan in the Wake of World War II

Dower, John W.

ISBN 10: 0393046869 / ISBN 13: 9780393046861

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, Scranton, PA, U.S.A., 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Embracing Defeat : Japan in the Wake of World War II
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, Scranton, PA, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393046869
• ISBN 13: 9780393046861
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • History
  • War

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

John W. Dower is the author of Embracing Defeat, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; War without Mercy, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Cultures of War. He is professor emeritus of history at MIT. In addition to authoring many books and articles about Japan and the United States in war and peace, he is a founder and codirector of the online "Visualizing Cultures" project established at MIT in 2002 and dedicated to the presentation of image-driven scholarship on East Asia in the modern world. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.