Ways of forgetting
Subtitle: Japan in the modern world
By: John W. Dower
Publisher: New Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781595586186
Subjects: Historiography; Collective memory; Politics and government; Influence; Social change; World War, 1939-1945; Social conditions; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: E.H. Norman, Japan, and the Uses of History; title: The Historian in His Times : E.H. Norman and Japan; title: Race, Language, and War in Two Cultures : World War II in Asia; title: Japan's Beautiful Modern War; title: "An Aptitude for Being Unloved" : War and Memory in Japan; title: The Bombed : Hiroshimas and Nagasakis in Japanese Memory; title: A Doctor's Diary of Hiroshima, Fifty Years Later; title: How a Genuine Democracy Should Celebrate Its Past; title: Peace and Democracy in Two Systems; title: Mocking Misery : Grassroots Satire in Defeated Japan; title: Lessons from Japan About War's Aftermath; title: The Other Japanese Occupation.