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Description edit
Winner of the 1999 National Book Award for Non-Fiction , finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II. Drawing on a vast range of... read more
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People edit
- Yoshida Shigeru: Add a description of this character.
- Watanabe
- Shidehara
- Ozaki
- Prince Konoe
- Blyth
- Kamei
- Hideki Tōjō: An officer in the Imperial Japanese Army, he served as the 40th Prime Minister of Japan from October 1941 to July 1944.
- Kanamori
- Kades
- Charles Willoughby
- Kido Koichi
- Henderson
- Joseph Keenan
- Shigemitsu Mamoru
- Higashikuni
- Whitney
- Ashida Hitoshi
- Sakaguchi
- Kawakami
- Sato
- Tamura
- Kato
- Marquat
- Terasaki
- Nagai Takashi
- Hirohito
- Shinran
- Tokuda
- Kurosawa
- Webb
- Van De Velde
- Dodge
- Kazuko
- Takano
- Mashbir
- Tsuji
- Yamaguchi
- Tanabe Hajime
- Harry Truman
- Kemp
- Theodore Cohen
Quotes edit
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“Japan's emergence as a modern nation was stunning to behold.”
Setting & Locations edit
- Japan
- Tokyo Bay
- United States
- China
- Matsumoto
- Southeast Asia
- Washington
- Soviet Union
- Manchuria
- Nagasaki
- Hiroshima
- Koreans
- America
- Germany
- Nosaka
- Pacific
- Nuremberg
- Manila
- Yokohama
- Okinawa
- Kyoto
- Britain
- Hollywood
- Europe
- Burma
- Potsdam Proclamation
- Missouri
- Shinjuku
- Far East
- Sugamo Prison
- Russia
- Nanbara
- Great East Asia
- Nanking
First Sentence edit
It was August 15, 1945, shortly before noon.
Authors & Contributors edit
- John W. Dower (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Ltd
Country: England
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0393046869
Page Count: 676
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Ltd
Country: England
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0393046869
Page Count: 676
Awards edit
- Pulitzer Prize (2000: General Nonfiction)
- Bancroft Prize (2000)
- John K. Fairbank Prize (1999)
- National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist, 1999: General Nonfiction)
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize (1999: History)
- National Book Award (1999: Nonfiction)
- Mark Lynton History Prize (2000)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 952.04
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