Shigeru Yoshida
Dower earned a bachelor's degree in American Studies from Amherst College in 1959, and a Ph.D. in History and Far Eastern Languages from Harvard University in 1972, where he studied under Albert M. Craig. He expanded his doctoral dissertation, a biography of former Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida, into the book "Empire and Aftermath". His other books include a selection of writings by E. Herbert Norman and a study of mutual images during World War II entitled "War Without Mercy".