| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
E.H. Norman, Japan, and the Uses of History -- The Historian in His Times : E.H. Norman and Japan -- Race, Language, and War in Two Cultures : World War II in Asia -- Japan's Beautiful Modern War -- "An Aptitude for Being Unloved" : War and Memory in Japan -- The Bombed : Hiroshimas and Nagasakis in Japanese Memory -- A Doctor's Diary of Hiroshima, Fifty Years Later -- How a Genuine Democracy Should Celebrate Its Past -- Peace and Democracy in Two Systems -- Mocking Misery : Grassroots Satire in Defeated Japan -- Lessons from Japan About War's Aftermath -- The Other Japanese Occupation |
| Summary |
Remembering and reconstructing the past inevitably involves forgetting & mdash;and nowhere more so than in the complex relationship between the United States and Japan since the end of World War II. In this provocative and probing series of essays, John W. Dower & mdash;one of our leading historians of postwar Japan and author of the Pulitzer Prize & ndash;winning Embracing Defeat & mdash;explores the uses and abuses to which this history has been subjected and, with deliberation and insight, affirms the urgent need for scholars to ask the questions that are not being asked. Taking as a starting point |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Historiography
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Japan
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Influence.
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Collective memory -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
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Social change -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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Collective memory
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Historiography
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Politics and government
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Social aspects
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Social change
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Japan -- History -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069511
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Japan -- History -- 1945- -- Historiography
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Japan -- Politics and government -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069556
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Japan -- Social conditions -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069578
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Japan
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011033861 |
| ISBN |
1595588116 |
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9781595588111 |
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