Japan in War and Peace
by John W. Dower
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Drawing on decades of experience and research, John W. 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 show more 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. show lessTags
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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, and Embracing Defeat, which received the Pulitzer and the National Book Award.
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- Canonical title
- Japan in War and Peace
- Original publication date
- 1993 (1st edition) (1st edition)
- Important places
- Japan
- Important events
- World War II (1939 | 1945)
- Disambiguation notice
- Full title (1993): Japan in war and peace : selected essays / John Dower
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