Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

by John W. Dower

GIs attempt to strike up a conversation with young women in Yokohama on August 31, 1945, three days after the first occupation forces arrived in Japan. A statement was also issued by the seven professional associations engaged in the

used them to escape the past

Japanese. Foreign journalists and American servicemen were prominent among them. This

family of nations, we must see

now being made from decapitated bomb casings sitting