John W. Dower
John Dower is emeritus professor of history at the Massachusetts institute of Technology. His prize-winning scholarship on Japan and the United States includes War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (1986) and Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (1999). He was a founder and co-director of the online “Visualizing Cultures” project at MIT [email protected], which includes over fifty image-driven historical units focusing on Asia—especially Japan and China–in the modern world.