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Embracing defeat : Japan in the wake of World War II / John W. Dower.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton & Co./New Press, c1999.Edition: 1st edDescription: 676 p. : ill., map ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0393046869
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS889 .D69 1999
Contents:
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.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks DS889.D69 1999 1 Available 33710000812862

Includes bibliographical references (p. [565]-650) and index.

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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.