The way Japan remembers World War II is sometimes radically at odds with the way it is remembered elsewhere. Pulitzer Prize winner John W. Dower describes this phenomenon, assesses America's role in enabling it and explains its implications for our understanding of the way nations construct their memories of war.

This presentation is part of the Rethinking East Asia Series sponsored by the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies.

Hosted by: Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies

In conjunction with: Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of History, Department of Sociology, Drobny Program for Jewish Culture and Society, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS)