Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World Hardcover – 31 July 2012
by John W. Dower (Author)
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Historian John W. Dower's celebrated investigations into modern Japanese history, World War II, and U.S.-Japanese relations have earned him critical accolades and numerous honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bancroft Prize. Now Dower returns to the major themes of his groundbreaking work, examining American and Japanese perceptions of key moments in their shared history. Both provocative and probing, Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering delves into a range of subjects, including the complex role of racism on both sides of the Pacific War, the sophistication of Japanese wartime propaganda, the ways in which the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is remembered in Japan, and the story of how the postwar study of Japan in the United States and the West was influenced by Cold War politics.
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John W. Dower is Professor Emeritus of History at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of several books, including War Without Mercy, Cultures of War, and Embracing Defeat, which was the recipient of numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Bancroft Prize, and the Fairbank Prize. He lives in Boston.
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Publisher : The New Press
Publication date : 31 July 2012
Language : English
Print length : 336 pages
ISBN-10 : 1595586180
ISBN-13 : 978-1595586186
Item weight : 522 g
Dimensions : 15.24 x 3.18 x 22.86 cm
Best Sellers Rank: 904,414 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)303 in Historical Essays (Books)
963 in History of Japan
1,025 in 21st Century History (Books)
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John W. Dower
John W. Dower is professor emeritus of history at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His interests lie in modern Japanese history and U.S.-Japan relations. He is the author of several books, including Ways of Forgetting, War Without Mercy, Cultures of War, and Embracing Defeat, which received numerous honors (including the Pulitzer Prize).
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Kurtulus Oktay
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for anyone who is interested in Japanese historyReviewed in Japan on 30 May 2016
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John Dower explains the Japanese history from a different perspective by using Japanese sources. This book does not include not your average, one-sided American explanations of the history, but rather, provides a compelling one that is decorated with useful and interesting anecdotes.
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Genevieve
3.0 out of 5 stars who enjoy literary articles and complex comparisonReviewed in Canada on 9 December 2015
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Complex read. For History intellectuals, who enjoy literary articles and complex comparison. Good but a more challenging read coming from a non history background.
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Bill Beers
5.0 out of 5 stars A book to remember!Reviewed in the United States on 6 May 2014
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These eleven essays present many fascinating insights and a great deal of information about postwar Japan, and can be enjoyed both by readers who already have an extensive knowledge of Japan and by readers whose knowledge is not so extensive. It is a book the reader will not soon forget. Both content and writing style deserve five stars!
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R. J. Fadeley
4.0 out of 5 stars Dated but still germane.Reviewed in the United States on 30 March 2015
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This is accessible historiography in the form of a collection of essays dating back to the Vietnam era. Dower is better known for his later book on Japan, Embracing Defeat, but in some ways this volume seems more concise. A fine introduction to some basic cultural aspects of Japanese strategic thought, this book will also provide sarisfaction to the seasoned student of that fascinating and contradictory nation.
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BLACKJACKPERU
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente libroReviewed in Japan on 23 December 2012
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Análisis sobresaliente y mesurado.
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