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Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World

Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World

Dower, John W.

Paperback

HistoriographyJapanese HistoryWorld War II

ISBN10: 1595589376
ISBN13: 9781595589378
Publisher: New Press
Published: Feb 4 2014
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.82 Width: 5.47 Depth: 8.36
Language: English
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.

Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering offers urgent insights by one of our greatest interpreters of the past into how citizens of democracy should deal with their history and, as Dower writes, the need to constantly ask what is not being asked.

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