Japan-American relations

is colored by the fact that the conquered people of Japan almost immediately accepted the Americans not as mere occupiers, but as a revolutionary army that would both free the citizenry from the yoke of militarism and treat a defeated people far more benignly than they might rightly have expected.

The historian John Dower has documented what he has termed Japan's “almost sensual embrace” of the United States so quickly after being devastated by the war.10 The conquered people of Japan almost immediately accepted the Americans not as mere occupiers, but as a revolutionary army that would both free the citizenry from the yoke of militarism and treat a defeated people far more benignly than they might rightly have expected. The Americans, in turn, felt a need to immunize this vital Asian nation against the viral threat of Communism.

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japan american relations