Part 1 Victor and vanquished: shattered lives - euphemistic surrender, unconditional surrender, quantifying defeat, coming home ... perhaps, displaced persons, despised veterans, stigmatized victims; gifts from heaven - "revolution from above", demilitarization and democratization, imposing reform. Part 2 Transcending despair: "Kyodatsu" - exhaustion and despair - hunger and the bamboo-shoot existence, enduring the unendurable, sociologies of despair, child's play, inflation and economic sabotage; cultures of defeat - servicing the conquerors, "butterflies", "onlys" and subversive women, black-market entrepreneurship, "kasutori" culture, decadence and authenticity, "married life"; 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 3 Revolutions: neocolonial revolution - victors as viceroys, reevaluating the monkey-men, the experts and the obedient herd; embracing revolution - embracing the commander, intellectuals and the community of remorse, grass-roots engagements, institutionalizing reform, democratizing everyday language; making revolution - lovable communists and radicalized workers, "a sea of red flags", unmaking the revolution from below. Part 4 Democracies: imperial democracy - driving the wedge -psychological warfare and the son of heaven, purifying the sovereign, the letter, the photograph and the memorandum; imperial democracy - descending partway from heaven - becoming bystanders, becoming human, cutting smoke with scissors; imperial democracy -evading responsibility - confronting abdication, imperial tours and the manifest human, one man's shattered god; 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; 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; censored democracy -policing the new taboos - the phantom bureaucracy, impermissible discourse, purifying the victors, policing the cinema, curbing the political left. Part 5 Guilts: 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; 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 6 Reconstructions: engineering growth - "oh, mistake
