![]() ![]() Embracing Defeat sources hundreds of documents to create a complex narrative of Japan’s postwar recovery under American occupation by focusing on the lives of ordinary people. This book, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (1999, 2000), received a number of prestigious prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize and the US National Book Award. His other monographs include War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War, Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World, and Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq. ![]() He received his doctorate in History (1972) from Harvard University and used his dissertation on Japan’s occupation-era Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida to write Empire and Aftermath: Yoshida Shigeru and the Japanese Experience, 1878-1954. ![]()
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