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Embracing Defeat

John W. Dower

How did ordinary Japanese rebuild their lives after defeat while their country was remade under American occupation?

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Author
John W. Dower

Why read it

  • You will learn how occupation authorities drafted a new national charter and how Japanese officials reworked it
  • You will question what democracy means when it is imposed and censored at the same time
  • You will see how the emperor, once the heart of wartime indoctrination, came down only partway from heaven and evaded responsibility for the war

Who it is for

  • Reader of Japanese or Pacific War history
  • Student comparing postwar occupations and nation building
  • Anyone asking what democracy looks like when imposed from outside

Contents

  1. EMBRACING DEFEAT
  2. INTRODUCTION
  3. Part I
  4. SHATTERED LIVES
  5. GIFTS FROM HEAVEN
  6. Part II
  7. KYODATSU: EXHAUSTION AND DESPAIR
  8. CULTURES OF DEFEAT
  9. BRIDGES OF LANGUAGE
  10. Part III
  11. NEOCOLONIAL REVOLUTION
  12. EMBRACING REVOLUTION
  13. MAKING REVOLUTION
  14. Part IV
  15. IMPERIAL DEMOCRACY: DRIVING THE WEDGE
  16. IMPERIAL DEMOCRACY: DESCENDING PARTWAY FROM HEAVEN
  17. IMPERIAL DEMOCRACY: EVADING RESPONSIBILITY
  18. CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY: GHQ WRITES A NEW NATIONAL CHARTER
  19. CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY: JAPANIZING THE AMERICAN DRAFT
  20. CENSORED DEMOCRACY: POLICING THE NEW TABOOS
  21. Part V
  22. VICTOR’S JUSTICE, LOSER’S JUSTICE
  23. WHAT DO YOU TELL THE DEAD WHEN YOU LOSE?
  24. Part VI
  25. ENGINEERING GROWTH
  26. LEGACIES/FANTASIES/DREAMS
  27. John w. Dower’s Embracing Defeat

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