War Without Mercy Review

A Review on John W. Dower’s War Without Mercy The powerful images of race during the Pacific War between two powerful foes, the United States and Japan, dominates the war propaganda of both nations during and after World War II that generated deep hatred, espousing stereotypes which still resonate today. John Dower asserts the significance of playing the race card and the level of success and failure attained by the U.S. and Japan …

…on how these racial tones took form in both the American and Japanese cultures. Dower concludes that despite forty years after the end of the War in the Pacific, racial stereotypes remain strong between the two nations. A new war emerges between the Unites States and Japan but not engaged in military combat. Rather, the ascension of an economic war between the two countries allows room for forty-year-old racial prejudices to submerge in the 1980s.