1979
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4.13
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618
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This detailed biography of Japan's Postwar prime minister has had a favorable reception in the United States and has sold widely in translation in Japan. Harvard East Asian Monographs, 84
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Author
John W. Dower
Author · 8 books
John W. Dower is the author of Embracing Defeat, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; War without Mercy, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Cultures of War. He is professor emeritus of history at MIT. In addition to authoring many books and articles about Japan and the United States in war and peace, he is a founder and codirector of the online “Visualizing Cultures” project established at MIT in 2002 and dedicated to the presentation of image-driven scholarship on East Asia in the modern world. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
