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John Dower

John Dower is Ford International Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Among his books are War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (1987), the essay collection Japan in War and Peace (1995), and Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (1999).

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America and Japan: the next century and a half

Can the crucial relationship between the United States and Japan best be served by disagreement as well as harmony? In the fourteenth of our ‘Letters to Americans’ series, Japan’s former ambassador in Washington, Yoshio Okawara, writes to the historian John Dower, author of “Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War Two”.