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John W. Dower

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Bachelors History Amherst College

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According to Wikipedia, John W. Dower is an American author and historian. His 1999 book Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction, the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, the Bancroft Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, and the John K. Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association.

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John W. Dower's Published Works

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Racist War for Civilization@@@War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. (1987) (514)
Embracing Defeat. Japan in the Wake of World War Two (1999) (433)
Embracing defeat : Japan in the aftermath of World War II (2000) (90)
Empire and Aftermath: Yoshida Shigeru and the Japanese Experience, 1878-1954 (1979) (84)
War Without Mercy (1986) (64)
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq (2010) (54)
Origins of the modern Japanese state: Selected writings of E. H. Norman (1975) (52)
Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World (2012) (44)
Empire and Aftermath (1979) (41)
Japan in war and peace : selected essays (1995) (40)
The Bombed: Hiroshimas and Nagasakis in Japanese Memory (1995) (39)
Japan in war and peace (1993) (33)
Triumphal and Tragic Narratives of the War in Asia (1995) (25)
The Only Woman in the Room: A Memoir of Japan, Human Rights, and the Arts (2014) (22)
The great transition (1971) (20)
Japan in war and peace : essays on history, culture and race (1996) (18)
Origins of the Modern Japanese State. (1976) (17)
Occupied Japan as History and Occupation History as Politics (1975) (16)
Japanese History and Culture from Ancient to Modern Times: Seven Basic Bibliographies (1986) (15)
Cultures of War (2010) (14)
The Hiroshima Murals: The Art of Iri Maruki and Toshi Maruki (1985) (13)
Wearing propaganda : textiles on the home front in Japan, Britain, and the United States, 1931-1945 (2005) (12)
Hidden Horrors (1996) (12)
The Truman presidency: Occupied Japan and the cold war in Asia (1989) (11)
Open secret;: The Kissinger-Nixon doctrine in Asia (1973) (10)
Japan Addresses Its War Responsibility (1995) (8)
Science, society, and the Japanese atomic-bomb project during world war two (1978) (8)
Nations and Nationalism roundtable discussion on Chinese nationalism and national identity (2016) (6)
Commentary: ‘Culture,’ Theory, and Practice in U.S.‐Japan Relations (2000) (5)
The elements of Japanese design;: A handbook of family crests, heraldry & symbolism (1971) (4)
The Past in Japan's Future: Will the Japanese Change? (1994) (4)
Black Ships and Samurai : Commodore Perry and the opening of Japan (2003) (3)
Peace with China?: U.S. decisions for Asia (1971) (3)
The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s (2012) (3)
Shomei Tomatsu: Skin of the Nation (2004) (3)
10 Points of note: Asia and the Nixon Doctrine (1970) (2)
Art, children, and the bomb (1984) (2)
Fear and Prejudice in U.S.–Japan Relations (1989) (2)
Reflections on the New World Order (1991) (2)
The Eye of the beholder: Background notes on the US-Japan military relationship (1969) (2)
Mikan no senryŌ kaikaku: Amerika chishikijin to suterareta Nihon minshūka kŌsŌ (Unfinished Occupation reforms: American intellectuals and the abandoned ideals of democratizing Japan). By DaizaburŌ Yui. (Tokyo: Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai, 1989. vi, 311 pp. Paper, ¥1,800, ISBN 4-13-025075-2.) In Japanes (1994) (1)
A letter from Japan : the photographs of John Swope (2006) (1)
Occupied Japan: A working bibliography (1974) (1)
Performing for Motion Capture (2022) (1)
Reinventing Tokyo : Japan's largest city in the artistic imagination (2012) (0)
Introduction to “People under feudalism” (1977) (0)
Three Views of the Recent past (1981) (0)
Political Protest in Interwar Japan - 2: Eight Topical Galleries from the Ohara Collection (1920s-1930s) (2013) (0)
21F.027J / CMS.874 / 21H.917J Visualizing Cultures, Spring 2008 (2003) (0)
Ōkubo Genji and the institute of Pacific relations: The unfinished agenda (1987) (0)
Warning from Hisrory: Why Iraq is not Japan (2003) (0)
Tenkanki no Nihon e : "pakkusu Amerikāna" ka "pakkusu Ajia" ka / Pax Americana versus Pax Asia: Japan in the San Francisco Treaty System (2014) (0)
Hebi-Tsuina-Sakazuki (1971) (0)
Harvard East Asian Monographs (1988) (0)
Imperial Japan and the “New Japan” (1988) (0)
Speciesism, Part I: Translating Races into Animals in Wartime Animation (2009) (0)
The Unmasterable Past: The Limits of Japan's Postwar Transformation (1999) (0)
Reviewers for Volume 28 (2015) (0)
The Secret Yoshida-Eden Plan of 1936-1937 (1988) (0)
Perspectives on Post-Quake Japan and the World: A Look ahead at 2012 (2015) (0)
Rethinking World War II in Asia@@@Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941-1945. (1984) (0)
21G.027 / 21G.590 / 21H.250 / CMS.874 Asia in the Modern World: Images & Representations, Spring 2012 (2012) (0)
Panel IC - "Group Defamation and the American-Japanese War" (1988) (0)
1. The Structures and Ideologies of Conquest (2007) (0)
Cooperation and Conflict in the New Imperium (1988) (0)
A message from the Showa emperor (1999) (0)

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War Without Mercy