Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War IIW. W. Norton & Company, 17 juin 2000 - 688 pages Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Nonfiction Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing Defeat is the fullest and most important history of the more than six years of American occupation, which affected every level of Japanese society, often in ways neither side could anticipate. Dower, whom Stephen E. Ambrose has called "America's foremost historian of the Second World War in the Pacific," gives us the rich and turbulent interplay between West and East, the victor and the vanquished, in a way never before attempted, from top-level manipulations concerning the fate of Emperor Hirohito to the hopes and fears of men and women in every walk of life. Already regarded as the benchmark in its field, Embracing Defeat is a work of colossal scholarship and history of the very first order. |
Table des matières
The Letter the Photograph and the Memorandum | 289 |
IMPERIAL DEMOCRACY DESCENDING PARTWAY FROM HEAVEN | 302 |
Becoming Human | 308 |
Cutting Smoke with Scissors | 314 |
IMPERIAL DEMOCRACY EVADING RESPONSIBILITY | 319 |
Confronting Abdication | 320 |
Imperial Tours and the Manifest Human | 330 |
One Mans Shattered God | 339 |
Displaced Persons | 54 |
Despised Veterans | 58 |
Stigmatized Victims | 61 |
GIFTS FROM HEAVEN | 65 |
Revolution from Above | 69 |
Demilitarization and Democratization | 73 |
Imposing Reform | 80 |
TRANSCENDING DESPAIR | 85 |
KYODATSU EXHAUSTION AND DESPAIR | 87 |
Hunger and the BambooSnoot Existence | 89 |
Enduring the Unendurable | 97 |
Sociologies or Despair | 104 |
Childs Play | 110 |
Inflation and Economic Sabotage | 112 |
CULTURES OF DEFEAT | 121 |
Servicing the Conquerors | 123 |
Butterflies Onlys and Subversive Women | 132 |
BlackMarket Entrepreneurship | 139 |
Kasutori Culture | 148 |
Decadence and Authenticity | 154 |
Married Life | 162 |
BRIDGES OF LANGUAGE | 168 |
Mocking Defeat | 170 |
Brightness Apples and English | 172 |
The Familiarity or the New | 177 |
Rushing into Print | 180 |
Bestsellers and Posthumous Heroes | 187 |
Heroines and Victims | 195 |
REVOLUTIONS | 201 |
NEOCOLONIAL REVOLUTION | 203 |
Victors as Viceroys | 204 |
Reevaluating the MonkeyMen | 213 |
The Experts and the Obedient Herd | 217 |
EMBRACING REVOLUTION | 225 |
Embracing the Commander | 226 |
Intellectuals and the Community or Remorse | 233 |
GrassRoots Engagements | 239 |
Institutionalizing Reform | 244 |
Democratizing Everyday Language | 251 |
MAKING REVOLUTION | 254 |
Lovable Communists and Radicalized Workers | 255 |
A Sea of Red Flags | 259 |
Unmaking the Revolution from Below | 267 |
DEMOCRACIES | 275 |
IMPERIAL DEMOCRACY DRIVING THE WEDGE | 277 |
Psychological Warfare and the Son of Heaven | 280 |
Purifying the Sovereign | 287 |
CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY GHQ WRITES ANEW NATIONAL CHARTER | 346 |
Regendering a Hermaphroditic Creature | 347 |
Conundrums for the Men of Meiji | 351 |
Popular Initiatives for a New National Charter | 355 |
SCAP Takes Over | 360 |
GHQs Constitutional Convention | 364 |
Thinking about Idealism and Cultural Imperialism | 370 |
CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY JAPANIZING THE AMERICAN DRAFT | 374 |
The Last Opportunity for the Conservative Group | 376 |
The Translation Marathon | 379 |
Unveiling the Draft Constitution | 383 |
Water Flows the River Stays | 387 |
Japanizing Democracy | 391 |
Renouncing WarPerhaps | 394 |
Responding to a Fait Accompli | 399 |
CENSORED DEMOCRACY POLICING THE NEW TABOOS | 405 |
The Phantom Bureaucracy | 406 |
Impermissible Discourse | 410 |
Purifying the Victors | 419 |
Policing the Cinema | 426 |
Curbing the Political Left | 432 |
GUILTS | 441 |
VICTORS JUSTICE LOSERS JUSTICE | 443 |
Stern Justice | 444 |
The Tokyo Tribunal | 449 |
Tokyo and Nuremberg | 454 |
Victors Justice and Its Critics | 461 |
Race Power and Powerlessness | 469 |
Naming Names | 474 |
WHAT DO YOU TELL THE DEAD WHEN YOU LOSE? | 485 |
A Requiem for Departed Heroes | 486 |
Irrationality Science and Responsibility for Defeat | 490 |
Buddhism as Repentance and Repentance as Nationalism | 496 |
Responding to Atrocity | 504 |
Remembering the Criminals Forgetting Their Crimes | 508 |
RECONSTRUCTIONS | 523 |
ENGINEERING GROWTH | 525 |
Oh Mistake | 526 |
Visible and Invisible Hands | 528 |
Planning a CuttingEdge Economy | 536 |
Unplanned Developments and Gifts from the Gods | 540 |
LEGACIESFANTASIESDREAMS | 547 |
NOTES | 565 |
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