Embracing Defeat by Dower, John W. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Victor and Vanquished

1. Shattered Lives

Euphemistic Surrender Unconditional Surrender Quantifying Defeat Coming Home . . . Perhaps Displaced Persons Despised Veterans Stigmatized Victims

2. Gifts from Heaven

“Revolution from Above” Demilitarization and Democratization Imposing Reform

Part II: Transcending Despair

3. Kyodatsu: Exhaustion and Despair

Hunger and the Bamboo-Shoot Existence Enduring the Unendurable Sociologies of Despair Child’s Play Inflation and Economic Sabotage

4. Cultures of Defeat

Servicing the Conquerors “Butterflies,” “Onlys,” and Subversive Women Black-Market Entrepreneurship “Kasutori Culture” Decadence and Authenticity “Married Life”

5. Bridges of Language

Mocking Defeat Brightness, Apples, and English The Familiarity of the New Rushing into Print Bestsellers and Posthumous Heroes Heroines and Victims

Part III: Revolutions

6. Neocolonial Revolution

Victors as Viceroys Reevaluating the Monkey-Men The Experts and the Obedient Herd

7. Embracing Revolution

Embracing the Commander Intellectuals and the Community of Remorse Grass-Roots Engagements Institutionalizing Reform Democratizing Everyday Language

8. Making Revolution

Lovable Communists and Radicalized Workers “A Sea of Red Flags” Unmaking the Revolution from Below

Part IV: Democracies

9. Imperial Democracy: Driving the Wedge

Psychological Warfare and the Son of Heaven Purifying the Sovereign The Letter, the Photograph, and the Memorandum

10. Imperial Democracy: Descending Partway from Heaven

Becoming Bystanders Becoming Human Cutting Smoke with Scissors

11. Imperial Democracy: Evading Responsibility

Confronting Abdication Imperial Tours and the Manifest Human One Man’s Shattered God

12. Constitutional Democracy: Ghq Writes a New National Charter

Regendering a Hermaphroditic Creature Conundrums for the Men of Meiji Popular Initiatives for a New National Charter Scap Takes Over Ghq’s “Constitutional Convention” Thinking about Idealism and Cultural Imperialism

13. Constitutional Democracy: Japanizing the American Draft

“The Last Opportunity for the Conservative Group” The Translation Marathon Unveiling the Draft Constitution Water Flows, the River Stays “Japanizing” Democracy Renouncing War . . . Perhaps Responding to a Fait Accompli

14. Censored Democracy: Policing the New Taboos

The Phantom Bureaucracy Impermissible Discourse Purifying the Victors Policing the Cinema Curbing the Political Left

Part V: Guilts

15 Victor’s Justice, Loser’s Justice

Stern Justice Showcase Justice: The Tokyo Tribunal Tokyo and Nuremberg Victor’s Justice and Its Critics Race, Power, and Powerlessness Loser’s Justice: Naming Names

16. What Do You Tell the Dead When You Lose?

A Requiem for Departed Heroes Irrationality, Science, and “Responsibility for Defeat” Buddhism as Repentance and Repentance as Nationalism Responding to Atrocity Remembering the Criminals, Forgetting their Crimes

Part VI: Reconstructions

17. Engineering Growth

“Oh, Mistake!” Visible (and Invisible) Hands Planning a Cutting-Edge Economy Unplanned Developments and Gifts from the Gods

Epilogue: Legacies/Fantasies/Dreams Notes Photo Credits Index John W. Dower’s Embracing Defeat More praise for John W. Dower’s Embracing Defeat Praise for John Dower’s Japan in War and Peace About the Author Copyright