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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II QUOTES

1 " For all their talk of democracy, the conquerors worked hard to engineer consensus; and on many critical issues, they made clear that the better part of political wisdom was silence and conformism. So well did they succeed in reinforcing this consciousness that after they left, and time passed, many non-Japanese including Americans came to regard such attitudes as peculiarly Japanese. "

― John W. Dower , Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

2 " The occupation of Japan was the last immodest exercise in the colonial conceit known as “the white man’s burden.”2 "

― John W. Dower , Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

3 " We can prove that most Americans don’t believe in pushing people around, even when we happen to be on top. "

― John W. Dower , Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II