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Historian John W. Dower’s celebrated investigations into modern Japanese history, World War II, and U.S.–Japanese relations have earned him critical accolades and numerous honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bancroft Prize. Now Dower returns to the major themes of his groundbreaking work, examining American and Japanese perceptions of key moments in their shared history. Both provocative and probing, Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering delves into a range of subjects, including the complex role of racism on both sides of the Pacific War, the sophistication of Japanese wartime propaganda, the ways in which the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is remembered in Japan, and the story of how the postwar study of Japan in the United States and the West was influenced by Cold War politics. Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering offers urgent insights by one of our greatest interpreters of the past into how citizens of democracy should deal with their history and, as Dower writes, “the need to constantly ask what is not being asked.”
A retrospective on the career of Japanese photographer Shomei Tomatsu, whose work has chronicled the changing face of Japan from the 1950s until the present. Included are essays on all aspects of the life & career of the artist, as well as excerpts from Tomatsu's own writings.
Samurai, Sumo wrestlers and priests, bijin-ga (images of beautiful women) and tattooed betto (porters), actors, entertainment and genre scenes. The conventions and aesthetics of the ukiyo-e woodblock print ( pictures of the floating world') were carried over into early Japanese photography (Shasin means photograph). In this fascinating early chapter of the medium, photographers staged their pictures, adding costumes in their studios and enhanced their albumen-silver photographs with watercolor paint added by master artists who took up to six hours on each image, often using a brush with one hair. The traditional lifestyles in these cultural vignettes proved increasingly popular with visitors seeking refuge from the modern industrialized world. The Japanese had experimented with photography, but after Commodore Perry's arrival with his American forces in 1853 new opportunities arose and pictures made from the 1860s to the 1900s by enterprising foreign and Japanese photographers were often collected into ornate albums by tourists. Shashin Nineteenth-Century Japanese Studio Photography is for all collectors, historians and enthusiasts of photography.