Embracing defeat :
Dower, John W.
Embracing defeat : Japan in the wake of World War II / John W. Dower. - 1st ed. - New York : W.W. Norton & Co./New Press, c1999. - 676 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [565]-650) and index.
Shattered lives -- Gifts from heaven -- Transcending despair. Kyodatsu: Exhaustion and despair -- Cultures of defeat -- Bridges of language -- Neocolonial revolution -- Embracing revolution -- Making revolution -- Imperial democracy: Driving the wedge -- Imperial democracy: Descending partway from heaven -- Imperial democracy: Evading responsibility -- Constitutional democracy: GHQ writes a new national charter -- Constitutional democracy: Japanizing the American draft -- Censored democracy: Policing the new taboos -- Victor's justice, loser's justice -- What do you tell the dead when you lose? -- Engineering growth -- Epilogue: Legacies/fantasties/dreams.
0393046869
98022133
Japan--History--1945-
DS889 / .D69 1999
Embracing defeat : Japan in the wake of World War II / John W. Dower. - 1st ed. - New York : W.W. Norton & Co./New Press, c1999. - 676 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [565]-650) and index.
Shattered lives -- Gifts from heaven -- Transcending despair. Kyodatsu: Exhaustion and despair -- Cultures of defeat -- Bridges of language -- Neocolonial revolution -- Embracing revolution -- Making revolution -- Imperial democracy: Driving the wedge -- Imperial democracy: Descending partway from heaven -- Imperial democracy: Evading responsibility -- Constitutional democracy: GHQ writes a new national charter -- Constitutional democracy: Japanizing the American draft -- Censored democracy: Policing the new taboos -- Victor's justice, loser's justice -- What do you tell the dead when you lose? -- Engineering growth -- Epilogue: Legacies/fantasties/dreams.
0393046869
98022133
Japan--History--1945-
DS889 / .D69 1999