Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II - Rilegato

Dower, John W.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0393046869 ISBN 13: 9780393046861

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1999

Riassunto

Chronicles the events that took place in Japan at the end of World War II and explores the effects they have had on the development and shaping of the Japanese society, from immediately after the war to the present day.

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A history of Japan, this work draws on a range of Japanese sources to offer an analysis of how shattering defeat in World War II, followed by over six years of military occupation by the USA, affected every level of Japanese society - in ways that neither the victor nor the vanquished could anticipate. Here is the history of an extraordinary moment in the history of Japanese culture, when new values warred with old, and when early ideals of "peace and democracy" were soon challenged by the "reverse course" decision to incorporate Japan into the Cold War Pax Americana. The work chronicles not only the material and psychological impact of utter defeat but also the early emergence of dynamic countercultures that gave primacy to the private as opposed to public spheres - in short, a liberation from totalitarian wartime control. John Dower shows how the tangled legacies of this intense, turbulent and unprecedented interplay of conqueror and conquered, West and East, wrought the utterly foreign and strangely familiar Japan of today.

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0393046869
• ISBN 13: 9780393046861
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 676