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Praise for Embracing Defea t: Extraordinarily illuminating.... Dower has deftly mixed history from the 'bottom up' and the 'top down' to produce what is surely the most significant work to date on the postwar era in Japan. Jacob Heilbrunn, Wall Street Journal Masterly.... A penetrating analysis of Japan in the aftermath of defeat.... A profound and moving book, the best history ever written of Japan and its relations to the United States after the Second World War. Akira Iriye, Harvard University, Boston Sunday Globe Richly detailed and provocative.... For anyone who knows modern Japan, it is an endlessly fascinating explanation of why things work as they do.... A marvelous piece of reporting and analysis. T.R. Reid, Washington Post With Embracing Defeat, [Dower] confirms his place as this country's leading chronicler of the Pacific war. Janice P. Nimura, Chicago Tribune [A] superb history of Japan's occupation.... Dower brilliantly captures the louche?, squalid, but extraordinary dynamic mood of the postwar years. His interest is not just in the politics, but also in literature, the movies, and popular songs. Ian Buruma, New York Review of Books

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JOHN W. DOWER is professor emeritus of history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His many books includeWar Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific WarandEmbracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War Two, which won numerous prizes including the Pulitzer and the National Book Award.

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