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The American Occupation of Japan.

Historian John Dower is the author of "Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II" (W.W. Norton) about the aftermath of the war on Japan, and the American military occupation. Dower says he wanted to capture a sense of what it meant to start over in a "ruined world" for people at all levels of society and how that time became a "touchstone for affirming a commitment to 'peace and democracy.'" Dower is the Elting E. Morrison Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Other segments from the episode on April 5, 1999

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, April 5, 1999: Interview with Fred Hiatt; Interview with John Dower; Commentary on Arthur Alexander.

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