Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering

by Dower, John W.

• ISBN13: 9781595586186
• ISBN10: 1595586180
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-07-31
• Publisher: New Pr

Summary

John Dower is a leading historian on modern Japan who has won numerous awards including a Pulitzer Prize. This new set of reflections looks at key 20th century moments in the relationship between the US and Japan, focusing on Japanese perceptions of the US: how the Japanese saw Hiroshima, the American occupation and the changes in their own lives. Readers also catch a glimpse of Japanese attitudes toward their own war crimes. Finally, Dower offers blistering comments on George W. Bush's attempts to justify the invasion of Iraq by citing Dower's own work.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
E.H. Norman, Japan, and the Uses of History	p. 1
Race, Language, and War in Two Cultures: World War II in Asia	p. 28
Japan's Beautiful Modern War	p. 65
"An Aptitude for Being Unloved?": War and Memory in Japan	p. 105
The Bombed: Hiroshimas and Nagasakis in Japanese Memory	p. 136
A Doctor's Diary of Hiroshima, Fifty Years Later	p. 161
How a Genuine Democracy Should Celebrate Its Past	p. 176
Peace and Democracy in Two Systems: External Policy and Internal Conflict	p. 185
Mocking Misery: Grassroots Satire in Defeated Japan	p. 227
Lessons from Japan About War's Aftermath	p. 256
The Other Japanese Occupation	p. 261
Sources	p. 270
Notes	p. 272
Index	p. 307
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