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John W. DowerJohn W . Dower (b. 1935) an American author, professor, and historian; his primary focus is modern Japan and U.S.-Japan relations. He is perhaps best-known for his book, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, which won the Pulitzer Prize in Letters for General Nonfiction, the National Book Award in Nonfiction, the Bancroft Prize in American History, and the Yamagata Banto Prize for Creative Work on Japan by a Non-Japanese Scholar. Dower graduated from Amherst College in 1959. During the 1960s he was a member of a group of Asian scholars wishing to reconcile their work with the new political landscape that developed as a result of the Vietnam War. The group established the often-controversial revisionist academic journal Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars. Dower eventually sat on the editorial board of the journal alongside Noam Chomsky and Herbert Bix. In 1972 Dower earned a Ph.D in History and Far Eastern Languages from Harvard University. He later expanded his dissertation, a biography of former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru, into the book Empire and Aftermath. In 1975 he published a selection of writings by historian and Canadian diplomat E. Herbert Norman, a book considered by many to be Dower's tribute to one of his inspirations. Dower has long been an advocate for international peace, and was the executive producer of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Hellfire - a Journey from Hiroshima in 1988. Dower has taught at the University of Wisconsin and the University of California, San Diego. He is currently the Elting E. Morison Professor of History and the Henry Luce Professor of International Cooperation at MIT. Selected works - Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (1999; W.W. Norton & Company, ISBN 0393320278)
- Empire and Aftermath (1988; Harvard University Press; ISBN 0674251261)
- Japan in War and Peace: Selected Essays (1995; New Press; ISBN 1565842790)
- Origins of the Modern Japanese State (1975; Pantheon; ISBN 0394709276)
- War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (1986; Pantheon; ISBN 0394751728)
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