Table of Contents

Preface • xi
 
PART I: ENEMIES
1. Patterns of a Race War • 3
2. “Know Your Enemy” • 15
3. War Hates and War Crimes • 33
 
PART II: THE WAR IN WESTERN EYES
4. Apes and Others • 77
5. Lesser Men and Supermen • 94
6. Primitives, Children, Madmen • 118
7. Yellow, Red, and Black Men • 147
    Illustrations • 181
 
PART III: THE WAR IN JAPANESE EYES
8. The Pure Self • 203
9. The Demonic Other 234
10. “Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus” • 262

PART IV EPILOGUE
11. From War to Peace • 293

Notes • 319
Bibliography • 367
Picture Credits • 385
Index • 387

About the Author

JOHN W. DOWER, born in 1938, is the Henry Luce Professor of International Cooperation and Global Stability at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Empire and Aftermath: Yoshida Shigeru and the Japanese Experience, 1878–1954 and The Elements of Japanese Design, and is the editor of The Origins of the Japanese State: Selected Writings of E. H. Norman and coeditor of The Hiroshima Murals: The Art of Iri Maruki and Toshi Maruki.

Reviews

 “May well be the most important study of the Pacific War ever published.”
—The New Republic
 
“One of the handful of truly important books on the Pacific War ... a cautionary tale for all peoples, now and in the future.”
—Foreign Affairs
 
“An exceptionally important book.”
—Newsweek
 
“Belongs in every general library ... should be required reading for anyone interested in understanding the trade wars that have mercifully replaced the killing fields in the Pacific.”
—The Boston Globe