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ARTICLES The U.S. Occupation of Japan as a Mutual Racial Experience Yukiko Koshiro University of Notre Dame In the history of U.S.-Japanese relations, the period of the U.S. Occu- pation of Japan (1945-51) remains a fascinating episode of an a b r u p t yet successful transition from a brutal w a r to an amicable peace. As John Dower illustrates in War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (1987), World War II featured h a r s h rhetoric on relations between whites a n d non-whites on both sides.' While asserting which c i v i l i z a t i o n - t h e white or the c o l o r e d - w a s to prevail in Asia, both sides criticized the inconsistency between the o t h e r ' s professed mis- sion in Asia a n d their o w n racism against Asian peoples. It was also a w a r in which racial h a t r e d figured overtly both in p r o p a g a n d a a n d mutual conceptions of
Journal of American-East Asian Relations – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1994
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