Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bright & Happy. The trouble with any plans for Japan's economic future was that most of the area with which she needs to trade was either held or threatened by the Communists. The Communists saw the dilemma. Japan's Communist boss, plump little Sanzo Nozaka, good friend of China's Mao Tsetung, found that Marxism has little ideological appeal for his countrymen; but when he promised them more food, more work, more trade, he found that even Japanese businessmen would listen. Last week, viewing Mao Tsetung's victories in China, Comrade Nozaka was the cheeriest fellow...
...harried businessmen and the hapless middle class he burbled: "With the victory of the Chinese Communists, half the world's people are now Communist. Communism is the future. Japan must trade with the rest of Asia to survive, and all the rest of Asia is rapidly going Communist. Trust us ... We will reconstruct Japan and make it bright and happy...
MacArthur thinks he can wipe the smile off little Nozaka's face. This much is certain: the Communists would have far greater cause for mirth if Douglas MacArthur had never come to Japan...
...position. I cannot imagine another U.S. general lowering his voice and, staring musingly into the distance, saying: We may fail here, but all men who truly have religion in their hearts must believe that we can succeed, must stand with respect before the miracle of what has happened in Japan...
...Milestone? When MacArthur sizes up the job the U.S. has done in Japan, he talks about a "milestone in the march of man." To spectators with less sweeping vision, this estimate seemed premature. But many would agree that, in Japan, the U.S. and MacArthur have acquitted themselves creditably in spite of the basic mistakes made in the first phase of the occupation. They were the mistakes of righteous anger and of unfamiliarity with the enormous problem of dealing with a conquered enemy, and in as far as they can be, they are on the way to being redressed...