Finally the last section of Dowers “War without Mercy” is the Epilogue. The Epilogue explained how rapid the transformation of racist ideas one, of the other was. Dower says, “How could the race hates dissipate so quickly?” (301) The fact was that it was simple, the racist perceptions each of one had for the other, were wrong. “The Americans were not demons… And the Japanese were more diversified and far more war-weary than their enemies had been led to believe.” (301) Although peace was made, Dower also explains to us how evil perceptions of each other were not dismissed; they were just put to the side. For the Japanese “ this is the side of the demon that prevailed: large, powerful, human, protective, awkward, vaguely forbidding, generally
