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Embracing Defeat, Japan in the Wake of WWII

Embracing Defeat, Japan in the Wake of WWII

by John W. Dower

  • HISTORY
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 676 PAGES

A social and political history of Japan during the postwar occupation, mixing analysis, reporting, popular culture and straight-forward narrative history. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, it's an eye-opening account by a leading scholar of Japanese-American relations at MIT. With 80 photographs and illustrations, including some terrific cartoons and other cultural artifacts from the period.  (JPN54, $19.95)


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