
Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering
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Remembering and reconstructing the past inevitably involves forgetting-and nowhere more so than in the complex relationship between the United States and Japan since the end of World War II. In this provocative and probing series of essays, John W. Dower-one of our leading historians of postwar Japan and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Embracing Defeat-explores the uses and abuses to which this history has been subjected and, with deliberation and insight, affirms the urgent need for scholars to ask the questions that are not being asked.
Using E. H. Norman, the unjustly neglected historian of prewar Japan, as a starting point, Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering sets out both to challenge historiographical orthodoxy and reveal the configurations of power inherent in scholarly and popular discourse in Japan and America. It is a profound look at American and Japanese perceptions-past and present-of key moments in their shared history. An incisive investigation of the problems of public history and its role in a modern democracy, these essays are essential reading for anyone interested in postwar US-Japan relations, as well as the broader discipline of history.
"A set of serious, cautionary reflections from a superb historian." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. E.H. Norman, Japan, and the Uses of History
- 2. Race, Language, and War in Two Cultures: World War II in Asia
- 3. Japan's Beautiful Modern War
- 4. "An Aptitude for Being Unloved": War and Memory in Japan
- 5. The Bombed: Hiroshimas and Nagasakis in Japanese Memory
- 6. A Doctor's Diary of Hiroshima, Fifty Years Later
- 7. How a Genuine Democracy Should Celebrate Its Past
- 8. Peace and Democracy in Two Systems: External Policy and Internal Conflict
- 9. Mocking Misery: Grassroots Satire in Defeated Japan
- 10. Lessons from Japan About War's Aftermath
- 11. The Other Japanese Occupation
- Sources
- Notes
- Index
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