Embracing Defeat - Japan in the Wake of World War II (Hardcover, 1st ed)

A history of Japan, this work draws on a range of Japanese sources to offer an analysis of how shattering defeat in World War II, followed by over six years of military occupation by the USA, 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, and when early ideals of "peace and democracy" were soon challenged by the "reverse course" decision to incorporate Japan into the Cold War Pax Americana. The work chronicles not only the material and 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 and unprecedented interplay of conqueror and conquered, West and East, wrought the utterly foreign and strangely familiar Japan of today.

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 1999
First published:	March 1999
Authors:	John W. Dower (Professor of History at M.I.T.)
Dimensions:	240 x 166 x 37mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	416
Edition:	1st ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-04686-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 > General
LSN:	0-393-04686-9
Barcode:	9780393046861

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