John Dower

John Dower is a professor emeritus of history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His scholarly books on twentieth-century Japan and World War II in Asia have won various prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Bancroft Prize, the Fairbank Prize, and several Japanese awards for works in translation. Dower was the executive producer of the Academy Award–nominated documentary film Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima, which deals with the collaborative atomic-bomb artwork of Iri and Toshi Maruki. He is the cofounder and director of "Visualizing Cultures," a pioneer online project devoted to visualizing Japan and China in the modern world which has helped change the teaching of Asia at both university and pre-university levels.