Book · 1999 · Nonfiction
Embracing Defeat
Japan in the Wake of World War II
W. W. Norton & Company · 680 pages
★ 6.7 editorial score
Defeated Japan is starving and occupied. Dower tells the years after 1945 from street level, through black markets, pulp magazines, and letters to MacArthur. The Japanese emerge remaking themselves rather than remade.
