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Japan's racism, rooted in pride in the purity and homogeneity of its society, has remained constant from the feudal era to the present and is potentially dangerous to its relations with the rest of the world, according to Dower, who is Henry Luce professor of international cooperation and global stability at MIT. In this collection of powerful, evenhanded and crystalline essays, he tracks manifestations of racism in the nation's mythology, cinema, wartime behavior and adaptations to the postwar occupation. He analyzes the nature of Japanese capitalism, the nation's emergence as a world power, its politicians and its government. Dower examines the Japanese sense of superiority to the mongrelized U.S. population as a factor in trade problems, but he also argues that the U.S.'s own sense of superiority and enduring contempt for the "little yellow devils" still underly our fear and awe of the Japanese. He punctures manipulated postwar myths in both Japan and the U.S. of a frail, kindly Hirohito and reviews General Douglas MacArthur's dealings with him. Dower warns of new dangers: that Japan's extreme conservatives will continue to "sanitize the 'holy war' waged in the emperor's name," that they will remilitarize and that "the cult of Japanese uniqueness can stimulate highly irrational nationalistic emotions." Illustrations.
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Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。
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Drawing on decades of experience and research, John Dower, author of the award-winning War Without Mercy, highlights for the first time the resemblances between wartime, postwar, and contemporary Japan. He argues persuasively that the origins of many of the institutions responsible for Japan's dominant position in today's global economy derive from the rapid military industrialization of the 1930s, and not from the post-occupation period, as many have assumed. A brilliant lead essay, "The Useful War," sets the tone for the volume by incisively showing how much of Japan's postwar political and economic structure was prefigured in the wartime organization of that country.
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A collection of papers on Japan before and after WWII
2002/3/14
形式:ペーパーバック
John Dower is the outstanding figure in the field of cold war, especially in Japan. His Pulitzer awarded book, 'Embracing Defeat', could be regarded as the cream of his career. If you read it already, you don't need to pick up this, I think. This book is no more than a collection of essays. So you chould not expect any integrity among papers. You'd better select essay to your needs. Sure, the quality of essays is not bad.
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A bit disappointing
2004/3/3
John Dower's Embracing Defeat is one of the best history books I've ever read. This earlier essay collection, which covers some of the same territory, is a disappointment by contrast. Dower is always an insightful guide to modern Japanese culture and politics. Among other things, he makes an interesting comparison here between U.S. and Japanese wartime cinema; offers a moving assessment of Japan's Atomic Bomb art; and inveighs repeatedly and passionately against what he fears is a resurgence of racism in America and ultra-nationalism in Japan. The book feels dated, though. Dower wrote most of these essays at a time when Japan appeared to be overtaking the United States economically, fueling resentment in America and arrogance in Japan. Now that Japan has endured a decade of economic stagnation and the U.S. has reemerged as the engine of global growth, Dower's concerns seem overblown (though, to be fair, they were widely shared at the time - and may return one day). More troubling, he is hypersensitive and defensive about anything he sees as a slight against Japan. Dower labors to disprove the notion that the Japanese are robotic drones who can't think for themselves. He certainly shows that the conformist label is exaggerated and simplistic. But he sometimes strains to make his point. For example, Dower attempts to unearth signs of grassroots resistance to the militaristic rule that led Japan (and much of the world) to bloody disaster in the 1930s and `40s. He notes, for example, that police investigated more than 2,000 rumors in Tokyo between 1941 and 1945. I think my own workplace produces rumors at a faster pace than that. Given the magnitude of the militarists' folly and the agony they caused in Japan, it strikes me as staggering that no one seriously tried to stop them. A low-level whispering campaign, a few furtive communists scribbling anti-Emperor graffiti and some unhappy factory workers calling in sick just don't cut it.
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A disappointment, hard to follow
2001/5/9
形式:ペーパーバック
While the topics included within this book are facinating, I found the author's writing style very hard to follow. Each essay seemed a disjointed stream of facts just as if this was an early draft waiting to be pieced together.If I were to grade this academic's work, he'd get a C-.
What's most surprising is that the author's other book on a similar topic is "Embracing Defeat" which is a good read and I definitely recommend.
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