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Book
Title:
Embracing defeat : Japan in the wake of World War II
ISBN:
9780393046861

9780393320275
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©1999.
Physical Description:
676 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Contents:
Victor and vanquished. Shattered lives ; Gifts from heaven -- Transcending despair. Kyodatsu : exhaustion and despair ; Cultures of defeat ; Bridges of language -- Revolutions. Neocolonial revolution ; Embracing revolution ; Making revolution -- Democracies. 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 -- Guilts. Victor's justice, loser's justice ; What do you tell the dead when you lose? -- Reconstructions. Engineering growth -- Legacies/fantasies/dreams.
Summary:
Drawing on a range of Japanese sources and illustrated with documentary photographs, this book is a history of the more than six years of American occupation which affected the various levels of Japanese society, often in ways neither side could anticipate. The author provides an image of the turbulent interplay between West and East, the victor and the vanquished, from top-level manipulations concerning the fate of Emperor Hirohito to the hopes and fears of men and women in every walk of life.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 13.6 47 34818.
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