1. “E.H. Norman and the Uses of History” is excerpted from the introduction to John W. Dower, ed., Origins of the Modern Japanese State: Selected Writings of E. H. Norman (Pantheon Books, 1975), 3–5, 80–93. The full introduction in the original printing runs from pages 3 to 101.
2. This illustrated version of “Race, Language, and War in Two Cultures: World War II in Asia” appeared in Lewis A. Erenberg and Susan E. Hirsch, eds., The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness During World War II (University of Chicago Press, 1996), 169–201. [For copyright reasons, Figure 2-3 replaces an American newspaper cartoon that is no longer accessible.] An earlier version of this essay, without illustrations, appeared in Dower, Japan in War and Peace (The New Press, 1993).
3. “Japan’s Beautiful Modern War” appeared in a lavishly illustrated exhibition catalog edited by Jacqueline M. Atkins under the title Wearing Propaganda: Textiles on the Home Front in Japan, Britain, and the United States, 1931–1945 (Yale University Press, for The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, 2005), 93–113.
4. “‘An Aptitude for Being Unloved’: War and Memory in Japan” appeared in Omer Bartov, Atina Grossmann, and Mary Nolan, eds., Crimes of War: Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century (The New Press, 2002), 217–41, 313–21.
5. “The Bombed: Hiroshimas and Nagasakis in Japanese Memory” originally appeared in a symposium published in Diplomatic History 19, no. 2 (Spring 1995): 275–95. The symposium was subsequently reprinted as a book edited by Michael J. Hogan under the title Hiroshima in History and Memory (Cambridge University Press, 1996), 116–42.
6. “A Doctor’s Diary of Hiroshima, Fifty Years Later” was written as a foreword to the fiftieth anniversary edition of Michihiko Hachiya, Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6–September 30, 1945: Fifty Years Later (University of North Carolina Press, 1995), v–xvii.
7. “How a Genuine Democracy Should Celebrate Its Past” appeared as an op-ed in the Chronicle of Higher Education, June 16, 1995.
8. “Peace and Democracy in Two Systems: External Policy and Internal Conflict” appeared in Andrew Gordon, ed., Postwar Japan as History (University of California Press, 1993), 3–33.
9. “Mocking Misery: Grassroots Satire in Defeated Japan” appeared in Gail Lee Bernstein, Andrew Gordon, and Kate Wildman Nakai, eds., Public Spheres, Private Lives in Modern Japan, 1600–1950 (Harvard University Asia Center, 2005), 345–74. This volume was a Festschrift in honor of Professor Albert M. Craig.
10. “Lessons from Japan about War’s Aftermath” appeared as an op-ed in the New York Times, October 27, 2002.
11. “The Other Japanese Occupation” was published in The Nation, July 7, 2003. A revised excerpt from this, focusing on imperial Japan’s grand policy in China including Manchuria, was published in Stephen R. MacKinnon, Diana Lary, and Ezra F. Vogel, eds., China at War: Regions of China, 1937–1945 (Stanford University Press, 2007), 17–21.