Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
Embracing Defeat won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Nonfiction. Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II. Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing Defeat is the fullest and most important history of the more than six years of American occupation, which affected every level of Japanese society, often in ways neither side could anticipate. Dower gives us the rich and turbulent interplay between West and East, the victor and the vanquished, in a way never before attempted, from top-level manipulations concerning the fate of Emperor Hirohito to the hopes and fears of men and women in every walk of life.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Year
- 2012
- ISBN-13
- 9780393345247
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- Post-WWII JapanAmerican occupationJapanese society and culture
Awards
- Bancroft PrizeWon(2000)
- Mark Lynton History PrizeWon(2000)
- Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionWonMajor(2000)
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for HistoryWon(1999)
- National Book Award for NonfictionWonMajor(1999)
- National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1999)
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