Embracing defeat Japan in the wake at World War ll

Discusses how the defeat and American military occupation of Japan after World War II affected each level of Japanese society.

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Main Author: Dower, John W. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York W.W.Norton & Company/The New Press [1999]
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Call Number :DS 889 .D69 1999

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505 0 |a 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. 
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