Volume 33, Number 13 · August 14, 1986
Us and Others
By Ian Buruma
War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
by John W. Dower
Pantheon, 399 pp., $22.50
The Japanese emperor Hirohito visited Europe twice. The first time, in 1921, he recalled some years ago as the 'happiest time of my life.' He played golf with the Prince of Wales and developed a taste for English-style breakfast. Exactly fifty years later, on his second visit, he was greeted with considerably less warmth. The British satirical magazine Private Eye came out with a cover reading 'Nasty Nip in the Air.' Demonstrators in Holland and Britain denounced the gentle marine biologist and Disneyland enthusiast as a war criminal.
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