| Acknowledgments |
| Introduction |
| Victor and Vanquished / Part I.： |
| Shattered Lives / 1.： |
| Euphemistic Surrender |
| Unconditional Surrender |
| Quantifying Defeat |
| Coming Home ... Perhaps |
| Displaced Persons |
| Despised Veterans |
| Stigmatized Victims |
| Gifts From Heaven / 2.： |
| "Revolution from Above" |
| Demilitarization and Democratization |
| Imposing Reform |
| Transcending Despair / Part II.： |
| Kyodatsu: Exhaustion and Despair / 3.： |
| Hunger and the Bamboo-Shoot Existence |
| Enduring the Unendurable |
| Sociologies of Despair |
| Child's Play |
| Inflation and Economic Sabotage |
| Cultures of Defeat / 4.： |
| Servicing the Conquerors |
| "Butterflies," "Onlys," and Subversive Women |
| Black-Market Entrepreneurship |
| "Kasutori Culture" |
| Decadence and Authenticity |
| "Married Life" |
| Bridges of Language / 5.： |
| Mocking Defeat |
| Brightness, Apples, and English |
| The Familiarity of the New |
| Rushing into Print |
| Bestsellers and Posthumous Heroes |
| Heroines and Victims |
| Revolutions / Part III.： |
| Neocolonial Revolution / 6.： |
| Victors as Viceroys |
| Reevaluating the Monkey-Men |
| The Experts and the Obedient Herd |
| Embracing Revolution / 7.： |
| Embracing the Commander |
| Intellectuals and the Community of Remorse |
| Grass-Roots Engagements |
| Institutionalizing Reform |
| Democratizing Everyday Language |
| Making Revolution / 8.： |
| Lovable Communists and Radicalized Workers |
| "A Sea of Red Flags" |
| Unmaking the Revolution from Below |
| Democracies / Part IV.： |
| Imperial Democracy: Driving the Wedge / 9.： |
| Psychological Warfare and the Son of Heaven |
| Purifying the Sovereign |
| The Letter, the Photograph, and the Memorandum |
| Imperial Democracy: Descending Partway From Heaven / 10.： |
| Becoming Bystanders |
| Becoming Human |
| Cutting Smoke with Scissors |
| Imperial Democracy: Evading Responsibility / 11.： |
| Confronting Abdication |
| Imperial Tours and the Manifest Human |
| One Man's Shattered God |
| Constitutional Democracy: GHQ Writes a New National Charter / 12.： |
| Regendering a Hermaphroditic Creature |
| Conundrums for the Men of Meiji |
| Popular Initiatives for a New National Charter |
| SCAP Takes Over |
| GHQ's "Constitutional Convention" |
| Thinking about Idealism and Cultural Imperialism |
| Constitutional Democracy: Japanizing the American Draft / 13.： |
| "The Last Opportunity for the Conservative Group" |
| The Translation Marathon |
| Unveiling the Draft Constitution |
| Water Flows, the River Stays |
| "Japanizing" Democracy |
| Renouncing War ... Perhaps |
| Responding to a Fait Accompli |
| Censored Democracy: Policing the New Taboos / 14.： |
| The Phantom Bureaucracy |
| Impermissible Discourse |
| Purifying the Victors |
| Policing the Cinema |
| Curbing the Political Left |
| Guilts / Part V.： |
| Victor's Justice, Loser's Justice / 15.： |
| Stern Justice |
| Showcase Justice: The Tokyo Tribunal |
| Tokyo and Nuremberg |
| Victor's Justice and Its Critics |
| Race, Power, and Powerlessness |
| Loser's Justice: Naming Names |
| What do you Tell the Dead when you Lose? / 16.： |
| A Requiem for Departed Heroes |
| Irrationality, Science, and "Responsibility for Defeat" |
| Buddhism as Repentance and Repentance as Nationalism |
| Responding to Atrocity |
| Remembering the Criminals, Forgetting Their Crimes |
| Reconstructions / Part VI.： |
| Engineering Growth / 17.： |
| "Oh, Mistake!" |
| Visible (and Invisible) Hands |
| Planning a Cutting-Edge Economy |
| Unplanned Developments and Gifts from the Gods |
| Epilogue: Legacies/Fantasies/Dreams |
| Notes |
| Photo Credits |
| Index |
| Acknowledgments |
| Introduction |
| Victor and Vanquished / Part I.： |
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