Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower
	List Price:   $29.95 Unit Price:   $23.96 You Save:   $5.99 (20%) ISBN-10:   0393046869 ISBN-13:   9780393046861 Publisher:   W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated Edition:   illustrated Category:   Young Adults Pub. Date:   March 1999 Pages:   416 Format:   Trade Cloth
Subjects
JAPAN_CIVILIZATION
Description/Notes
The first definitive history of the transformation of Japanese society under American occupation after World War II. This major new work by America's foremost historian of modern Japan draws on a vast range of Japanese sources to offer an extraordinarily thorough, complex, & rich analysis of how shattering defeat in World War II followed by over six years of military occupation by the United States affected every level of Japanese society-in ways that neither the victor nor the vanquished could anticipate. Here is the history of an extraordinary moment in the history of Japanese culture, when new values warred with old, & when early ideals of 'peace & democracy' were soon challenged by the 'reverse course' decision to incorporate Japan into the cold-war Pax Americana. Embracing Defeat chronicles not only the material & psychological impact of utter defeat but also the early emergence of dynamic countercultures that gave primacy to the private as opposed to public spheres-in short, a liberation from totalitarian wartime control. John Dower shows how the tangled legacies of this intense, turbulent, & unprecedented interplay of conqueror & conquered, West & East, wrought the utterly foreign & strangely familiar Japan of today. An extraordinarily thorough, complex, & rich analysis of how shattering defeat in World War II followed by over six years of military occupation by the United States affected every level of Japanese society--in ways that neither the victor nor the vanquished could anticipate. Here is the history of an extraordinary moment in the history of Japanese culture, when new values warred with old, & when early ideals of peace & democracy were soon challenged by the reverse course decision to incorporate Japan into the cold-war Pax Americana. A definitive history of the transformation of Japanese society under American occupation after World War II. 40 photos.