Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japan has become a poorhouse living on U.S. bounty...
Export or Die. However the Review Board might rule, there would be no solution to Japan's long-range problem until she began to trade again. And here the Japanese were still impaled on the horns of their own lamentable modern history...
...after swallowing Manchuria but before tackling the rest of China and the world), Japan maintained in her home islands 70 million people. They subsisted as a nation on a thriving trade with Asia and the West. But in 1948 the overseas empire of Japan was gone; and now almost 80 million people were packed into the home islands. As with the British, the cry of the Japanese could well be: "Export...
...German and Japanese occupations have differed in many ways-most notably, in Japan there was no quarrelsome quadripartite situation to deal with, and MacArthur had the field to himself-but in both cases the U.S. learned early that no boot-on-the-neck type of peace would work. Germany could have become a nation of peasants (as she would have under the Morgenthau plan), but her industry was necessary to the rest of Europe. Japanese industry is needed, first & foremost, to keep Japan alive, for on her meager acres she could not possibly feed herself even if everyone worked...
...Philippines the reception was different. Businessmen there were cool to what Japan had to offer, and politicians, sensing the public hostility, were cooler. Said Philippine Congressman Cipriano Primicias: "MacArthur is being deceived ... I would not lift a finger to help put Japan again in a position to menace the peace and security of the Far East...