Embracing defeat : Japan in the wake of World War II
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Embracing defeat : Japan in the wake of World War II
Allen Lane, 1999
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Embracing defeat : Japan in the aftermath of World War II
Embracing defeat : Japan in the wake of World War 2
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First published in the USA by W.W. Norton, 1999
Includes bibliographical references (p. 567-650) and index
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Examines the impact of military defeat and occupation on an exhausted and traumatized population. Focusing on American policy and the Japanese response to collapse, John Dower demonstrates how the mix of East and West in modern Japan derives from the period immediately after World War II. Alongside the familiar story of economic resurgence, Dower provides an account of the recreaction of private life after years of regimentation and sacrifice.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Victor and vanquished: shattered lives - euphemistic surrender, unconditional surrender, quantifying defeat, coming home ... perhaps, displaced persons, despised veterans, stigmatized victims
- gifts from heaven - "revolution from above", demilitarization and democratization, imposing reform. Part 2 Transcending despair: "Kyodatsu" - exhaustion and despair - hunger and the bamboo-shoot existence, enduring the unendurable, sociologies of despair, child's play, inflation and economic sabotage
- cultures of defeat - servicing the conquerors, "butterflies", "onlys" and subversive women, black-market entrepreneurship, "kasutori" culture, decadence and authenticity, "married life"
- bridges of language - mocking defeat, brightness, apples and English, the familiarity of the new, rushing into print, bestsellers and posthumous heroes, heroines and victims. Part 3 Revolutions: neocolonial revolution - victors as viceroys, reevaluating the monkey-men, the experts and the obedient herd
- embracing revolution - embracing the commander, intellectuals and the community of remorse, grass-roots engagements, institutionalizing reform, democratizing everyday language
- making revolution - lovable communists and radicalized workers, "a sea of red flags", unmaking the revolution from below. Part 4 Democracies: imperial democracy - driving the wedge -psychological warfare and the son of heaven, purifying the sovereign, the letter, the photograph and the memorandum
- imperial democracy - descending partway from heaven - becoming bystanders, becoming human, cutting smoke with scissors
- imperial democracy -evading responsibility - confronting abdication, imperial tours and the manifest human, one man's shattered god
- constitutional democracy - GHQ writes a new national charter - regendering a hermaphroditic creature, conundrums for the men of Meiji, popular initiatives for a new national charter, SCAP takes over, GHQ's "constitutional convention"
- thinking about idealism and cultural imperialism
- constitutional democracy - Japanizing the American draft - "the last opportunity for the conservative group", the translation marathon, unveiling the draft constitution, water flows, the river stays, "Japanizing" democracy, renouncing war ... perhaps, responding to a fait accompli
- censored democracy -policing the new taboos - the phantom bureaucracy, impermissible discourse, purifying the victors, policing the cinema, curbing the political left. Part 5 Guilts: victor's justice, loser's justice -stern justice, showcase justice - the Tokyo Tribunal, Tokyo and Nuremberg, victor's justice and its critics, race, power and powerlessness, loser's justice - naming names
- what do you tell the dead when you lose? - a requiem for departed heroes, irrationality, science and "responsibility for defeat", Buddhism as repentance and repentance as nationalism, responding to atrocity, remembering the criminals, forgetting their crimes. Part 6 Reconstructions: engineering growth - "oh, mistake
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