Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed to go so well in its first phase, were being called in question as never before. Its aims, which had seemed so clear and simple under the Potsdam Declaration, had apparently shifted under MacArthur's feet. Once people had asked: "How are we going to hold Japan down?" Now they were asking: "How are we going to hold her up?"-meaning, how are we going to prevent economic collapse and make this floundering, bewildered country economically stable and self-sufficient...
...Gunfire. MacArthur had long ago learned Japanese ways of thinking. He knew the Japanese thirst for leaders and their love of idols. When he went into Japan in 1945, he capitalized on this knowledge...
...directive he had been given was clear-to obliterate Japan's capacity to make war, and to start the country on the road to becoming a peaceful and democratic nation. The first months after the landings were a wonderful achievement. The Japanese army, navy and air force were liquidated without a shot fired...
...Labor organizations were set up and encouraged to assert their rights. War criminals were brought to trial. Several of them, on the brink of execution, thanked the U.S. for fair treatment. Ill-famed wartime Premier Hideki Tojo and 24 other top wrongdoers are awaiting sentence. Nobody in Japan, certainly no American, could be sure that these lessons would stick. But the score was impressive...
There is severe inflation in Japan, and a black market. Communist troublemaking in the unions forced MacArthur to squelch a general strike, later a communications strike. There is not enough shipping, and no visible way of getting large-scale shipbuilding started...