Book Discussion: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of WW II by John W. Dower

Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of WW II. The book is an important history of the more than six years of American occupation, which affected every level of Japanese society.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize.

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of WWII by John W. Dower is available in all formats at public libraries and bookstores