Review Of Patterns Of A Race War, The War In Western Eyes

Throughout the book, Dower discusses the different aspects of a war based on race and nationalities. Dower covered the steps that take place in a war of race and devastating results that occur. He used the events of the war in the Pacific and specifically, the actions of the Americans and Japanese against each other. The main thesis of his work is best summarized in this, there is great positivity for humanity that can occur as a result of putting racial and nationalistic differences aside, however, there are still many looming possible results that can occur when there is a sense of focusing on negatives of differences one of these results could be a brutal war. The organization of the book did a great job at describing the stages of a war based on racial differences. There are three main parts to the book, Patterns of a Race War, The War in Western Eyes, The War in Japanese Eyes. The first of these three sections talks about the way that an enemy is depicted in a racist war. Dower begins the section by reminding the readers that many people died1 in this example, he did this in the beginning because throughout the work he would show that in these instances of war, almost always, many die. One important part of these wars and creating an enemy is that it can not just happen instantly. One

As one can assume because of the title similarity to the previous section. This section talked about how these steps of a race war were done by the Japanese. The Japanese also created a picture of their enemy through publications of items such as An Outline of Information and Propaganda Policies for the War between Japan and the Anglo-American Powers.6 The Japanese portrayed themselves as the ‘leading race’7 which created distance with their opponent and portrayed them as below the ‘leading race.’ Dower went into great detail discussing the steps that the Japanese took that looked a lot like the