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.
Series
Books
The Elements of Japanese Design
A Handbook of Family Crests, Heraldry & Symbolism
1971
Embracing Defeat
Japan in the Wake of World War II
1999
Japan in War and Peace
Selected Essays
1993
Empire and Aftermath
Yoshida Shigeru and the Japanese Experience, 1878-1954
1979
Cultures of War
Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq
2010
The Violent American Century
War and Terror Since World War II
2017
War Without Mercy
Race and Power in the Pacific War
1986
Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering
Japan in the Modern World
2012
