What happened to the racism that flourished during the “war without mercy” after the Pacific War ended? This is the question tackled by this ambitious book. Racial prejudices and hatreds of all types persisted and even flourished, at times with a vengeance. Beneath the constructed and mutually acceptable post-war cooperative relationship that seemed to characterize United States-Japan relations, racial animosities on both sides of the Pacific festered, threatening to disrupt the official reconciliation and apparent new amity between the former belligerents.