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John W. Dower

Author of Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

Includes the names: John Dower, John W. Dower, ジョン・ダワー

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Title	Copies	Reviews	Ratings	Average	Median	Std. dev.
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II	681	8	105	4.16	4.00	0.70
War Without Mercy	427	7	44	3.95	4.00	0.85
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq	67	4	9	4.11	4.00	0.91
Japan in War and Peace	46		6	4.00	3.75	0.76
The Elements of Japanese Design: Handbook of Family Crests, Heraldry & Symbolism	39		3	3.67	4.00	0.47
Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World	15		2	3.25	3.25	0.25
Empire and Aftermath: Yoshida Shigeru and the Japanese Experience, 1878-1954	11		2	4.50	4.50	0.50
The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s	1		1	4.00	4.00
Wearing propaganda : textiles on the home front in Japan, Britain, and the United States, 1931-1945	5		1	5.00	5.00
Origins of the Modern Japanese State	6		1	4.00	4.00
Japanese History & Culture From Ancient To Modern Times	5
Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945	2
容赦なき戦争―太平洋戦争における人種差別 (平凡社ライブラリー)	3

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