Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	p. 15
	Introduction	p. 19
	Victor and Vanquished
	Shattered Lives	p. 33
	Euphemistic Surrender	p. 34
	Unconditional Surrender	p. 39
	Quantifying Defeat	p. 45
	Coming Home ... Perhaps	p. 48
	Displaced Persons	p. 54
	Despised Veterans	p. 58
	Stigmatized Victims	p. 61
	Gifts From Heaven	p. 65
	"Revolution from Above"	p. 69
	Demilitarization and Democratization	p. 73
	Imposing Reform	p. 80
	Transcending Despair
	Kyodatsu: Exhaustion and Despair	p. 87
	Hunger and the Bamboo-Shoot Existence	p. 89
	Enduring the Unendurable	p. 97
	Sociologies of Despair	p. 104
	Child's Play	p. 110
	Inflation and Economic Sabotage	p. 112
	Cultures of Defeat	p. 121
	Servicing the Conquerors	p. 123
	"Butterflies," "Onlys," and Subversive Women	p. 132
	Black-Market Entrepreneurship	p. 139
	"Kasutori Culture"	p. 148
	Decadence and Authenticity	p. 154
	"Married Life"	p. 162
	Bridges of Language	p. 168
	Mocking Defeat	p. 170
	Brightness, Apples, and English	p. 172
	The Familiarity of the New	p. 177
	Rushing into Print	p. 180
	Bestsellers and Posthumous Heroes	p. 187
	Heroines and Victims	p. 195
	Revolutions
	Neocolonial Revolution	p. 203
	Victors as Viceroys	p. 204
	Reevaluating the Monkey-Men	p. 213
	The Experts and the Obedient Herd	p. 217
	Embracing Revolution	p. 225
	Embracing the Commander	p. 226
	Intellectuals and the Community of Remorse	p. 233
	Grass-Roots Engagements	p. 239
	Institutionalizing Reform	p. 244
	Democratizing Everyday Language	p. 251
	Making Revolution	p. 254
	Lovable Communists and Radicalized Workers	p. 255
	"A Sea of Red Flags"	p. 259
	Unmaking the Revolution from Below	p. 267
	Democracies
	Imperial Democracy: Driving the Wedge	p. 277
	Psychological Warfare and the Son of Heaven	p. 280
	Purifying the Sovereign	p. 287
	The Letter, the Photograph, and the Memorandum	p. 289
	Imperial Democracy: Descending Partway From Heaven	p. 302
	Becoming Bystanders	p. 302
	Becoming Human	p. 308
	Cutting Smoke with Scissors	p. 314
	Imperial Democracy: Evading Responsibility	p. 319
	Confronting Abdication	p. 320
	Imperial Tours and the Manifest Human	p. 330
	One Man's Shattered God	p. 339
	Constitutional Democracy: GHQ Writes a New National Charter	p. 346
	Regendering a Hermaphroditic Creature	p. 347
	Conundrums for the Men of Meiji	p. 351
	Popular Initiatives for a New National Charter	p. 355
	SCAP Takes Over	p. 360
	GHQ's "Constitutional Convention"	p. 364
	Thinking about Idealism and Cultural Imperialism	p. 370
	Constitutional Democracy: Japanizing the American Draft	p. 374
	"The Last Opportunity for the Conservative Group"	p. 376
	The Translation Marathon	p. 379
	Unveiling the Draft Constitution	p. 383
	Water Flows, the River Stays	p. 387
	"Japanizing" Democracy	p. 391
	Renouncing War ... Perhaps	p. 394
	Responding to a Fait Accompli	p. 399
	Censored Democracy: Policing the New Taboos	p. 405
	The Phantom Bureaucracy	p. 406
	Impermissible Discourse	p. 410
	Purifying the Victors	p. 419
	Policing the Cinema	p. 426
	Curbing the Political Left	p. 432
	Guilts
	Victor's Justice, Loser's Justice	p. 443
	Stern Justice	p. 444
	Showcase Justice: The Tokyo Tribunal	p. 449
	Tokyo and Nuremberg	p. 454
	Victor's Justice and Its Critics	p. 461
	Race, Power, and Powerlessness	p. 469
	Loser's Justice: Naming Names	p. 474
	What do you Tell the Dead when you Lose?	p. 485
	A Requiem for Departed Heroes	p. 486
	Irrationality, Science, and "Responsibility for Defeat"	p. 490
	Buddhism as Repentance and Repentance as Nationalism	p. 496
	Responding to Atrocity	p. 504
	Remembering the Criminals, Forgetting Their Crimes	p. 508
	Reconstructions
	Engineering Growth	p. 525
	"Oh, Mistake!"	p. 526
	Visible (and Invisible) Hands	p. 528
	Planning a Cutting-Edge Economy	p. 536
	Unplanned Developments and Gifts from the Gods	p. 540
	Epilogue: Legacies/Fantasies/Dreams	p. 547
	Notes	p. 565
	Photo Credits	p. 651
	Index	p. 653