Japan in War and Peace

Selected Essays

John W. Dower

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Here, Dower offers a collection of essays on Japan and its complex relations with the U.S. over the past half century.
-- Kirkus Reviews
"Powerful, evenhanded, and crystalline essays."
-- Publishers Weekly
Drawing on decades of experience and research, John Dower, author of the award-winning War Without Mercy, highlights for the first time the resemblances between wartime, postwar, and contemporary Japan. He argues persuasively that the origins of many of the institutions responsible for Japan's dominant position in today's global economy derive from the rapid military industrialization of the 1930s, and not from the post-occupation period, as many have assumed. A brilliant lead essay, "The Useful War," sets the tone for the volume by incisively showing how much of Japan's postwar political and economic structure was prefigured in the wartime organization of that country.

John W. Dower is the Elting E. Morison Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for War Without Mercy. 
History / Asian Studies
Spring 1995
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5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 384 pages
978-1-56584-279-3

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