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Ways of Forgetting: Japan in the Modern World
Ways of Forgetting Japan in the Modern World Author:John W. Dower Ways of Forgetting looks at the key moments in the relationship between two national powers focusing on Japanese perceptions of the United States: how the Japanese saw Hiroshima, the American occupation, and the changes in their own lives. We also catch a glimpse of Japanese attitudes toward their own war crimes. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian... more » John Dower offers blistering comments on Bush?s attempts to justify the invasion of Iraq by citing Dower?s own work on the U.S. occupation of Japan.
The book is a fascinating and probing look at the ways in which we remember the tangled history between the United States and Japan and how it is still invoked today.« less