John W . Dower (born 1938) is 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, Mark Lynton History Prize and the Yamagata Banto Prize for Creative Work on Jap...
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John W . Dower (born 1938) is 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, Mark Lynton History Prize and the Yamagata Banto Prize for Creative Work on Japan by a Non-Japanese Scholar.
Dower earned an American Studies bachelor's degree from Amherst College in 1959. During the 1960s he was a member of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars, a group of Asia scholars wishing to reconcile their work with the new political landscape that developed as a result of the Vietnam War. The group established the 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...
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