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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Victor and Vanquished | |
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| Shattered Lives | |
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| Euphemistic Surrender | |
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| Unconditional Surrender | |
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| Quantifying Defeat | |
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| Coming Home ... Perhaps | |
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| Displaced Persons | |
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| Despised Veterans | |
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| Stigmatized Victims | |
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| Gifts From Heaven | |
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| "Revolution from Above" | |
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| Demilitarization and Democratization | |
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| Imposing Reform | |
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| Transcending Despair | |
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| Kyodatsu: Exhaustion and Despair | |
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| Hunger and the Bamboo-Shoot Existence | |
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| Enduring the Unendurable | |
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| Sociologies of Despair | |
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| Child's Play | |
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| Inflation and Economic Sabotage | |
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| Cultures of Defeat | |
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| Servicing the Conquerors | |
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| "Butterflies," "Onlys," and Subversive Women | |
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| Black-Market Entrepreneurship | |
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| "Kasutori Culture" | |
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| Decadence and Authenticity | |
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| "Married Life" | |
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| Bridges of Language | |
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| Mocking Defeat | |
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| Brightness, Apples, and English | |
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| The Familiarity of the New | |
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| Rushing into Print | |
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| Bestsellers and Posthumous Heroes | |
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| Heroines and Victims | |
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| Revolutions | |
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| Neocolonial Revolution | |
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| Victors as Viceroys | |
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| Reevaluating the Monkey-Men | |
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| The Experts and the Obedient Herd | |
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| Embracing Revolution | |
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| Embracing the Commander | |
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| Intellectuals and the Community of Remorse | |
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| Grass-Roots Engagements | |
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| Institutionalizing Reform | |
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| Democratizing Everyday Language | |
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| Making Revolution | |
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| Lovable Communists and Radicalized Workers | |
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| "A Sea of Red Flags" | |
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| Unmaking the Revolution from Below | |
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| Democracies | |
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| Imperial Democracy: Driving the Wedge | |
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| Psychological Warfare and the Son of Heaven | |
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| Purifying the Sovereign | |
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| The Letter, the Photograph, and the Memorandum | |
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| Imperial Democracy: Descending Partway From Heaven | |
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| Becoming Bystanders | |
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| Becoming Human | |
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| Cutting Smoke with Scissors | |
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| Imperial Democracy: Evading Responsibility | |
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| Confronting Abdication | |
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| Imperial Tours and the Manifest Human | |
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| One Man's Shattered God | |
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| Constitutional Democracy: GHQ Writes a New National Charter | |
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| Regendering a Hermaphroditic Creature | |
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| Conundrums for the Men of Meiji | |
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| Popular Initiatives for a New National Charter | |
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| SCAP Takes Over | |
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| GHQ's "Constitutional Convention" | |
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| Thinking about Idealism and Cultural Imperialism | |
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| Constitutional Democracy: Japanizing the American Draft | |
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| "The Last Opportunity for the Conservative Group" | |
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| The Translation Marathon | |
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| Unveiling the Draft Constitution | |
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| Water Flows, the River Stays | |
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| "Japanizing" Democracy | |
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| Renouncing War ... Perhaps | |
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| Responding to a Fait Accompli | |
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| Censored Democracy: Policing the New Taboos | |
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| The Phantom Bureaucracy | |
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| Impermissible Discourse | |
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| Purifying the Victors | |
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| Policing the Cinema | |
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| Curbing the Political Left | |
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| Guilts | |
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| Victor's Justice, Loser's Justice | |
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| Stern Justice | |
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| Showcase Justice: The Tokyo Tribunal | |
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| Tokyo and Nuremberg | |
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| Victor's Justice and Its Critics | |
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| Race, Power, and Powerlessness | |
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| Loser's Justice: Naming Names | |
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| What do you Tell the Dead when you Lose? | |
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| A Requiem for Departed Heroes | |
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| Irrationality, Science, and "Responsibility for Defeat" | |
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| Buddhism as Repentance and Repentance as Nationalism | |
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| Responding to Atrocity | |
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| Remembering the Criminals, Forgetting Their Crimes | |
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| Reconstructions | |
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| Engineering Growth | |
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| "Oh, Mistake!" | |
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| Visible (and Invisible) Hands | |
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| Planning a Cutting-Edge Economy | |
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| Unplanned Developments and Gifts from the Gods | |
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| Epilogue: Legacies/Fantasies/Dreams | |
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| Notes | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| Index | |