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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New York
W.W.Norton & Company/The New Press
[1999]
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Table of 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.