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...have spurned the suggestion that they ally themselves with The Student Association's Committee on Academic Policy. On the other hand, many of the WE group argue that the most effective way of getting action on the forthcoming reports will be to submit them through the Student Association's SCAP as the representative voice of the students...
...General MacArthur's task was to endow Japan with democratic institutions which would temper the physical power the Japanese had acquired by forced draft in the 90 years since Commodore Perry had forced them to abandon two centuries of hermithood. Through the sprawling military supergovernment known as SCAP (Supreme Commander Allied Powers), General MacArthur performed much of his mission brilliantly...
...constitution written by SCAP's Government Section, the general gave the Japanese the liberties that some of them now seem bent on throwing away-free speech, universal suffrage, an independent judiciary. In 1949, Detroit Banker Joseph Dodge, MacArthur's tough-minded economic adviser, forced upon the reluctant Japanese a stiff dose of deflation and decontrol-and thereby laid the foundations of Japan's present economic strength. No less vital was the land-reform program which, by redistributing 4,500,000 acres of land and cutting tenant farmers from 48% of the agricultural population to only 9%, gave...
Back to Marx. At this point, Douglas MacArthur II ran smack into two more unfortunate monuments to his uncle's administration of Japan. In the heady early years of the occupation, General MacArthur was somehow persuaded to let SCAP's Labor Division fasten onto Japan a set of labor-relations laws that gave Japanese unions a readymade war chest by imposing the dues "checkoff," and saddled the country with minimum standards for working hours, accident compensation, etc. matching those of the U.S. Desperately short of trained leaders, the unions all too often turned to Socialist and Communist agitators...
Even more ominous for Japan in the long term were the consequences of SCAP's educational reforms. Basic occupation policy on education was laid down in 1946 by an Education Mission heavily loaded with men who were devoted to the doctrines of Pragmatic Philosopher John Dewey. They failed to recognize that what Japan's children needed was not to learn to adjust to the shattered society around them but to be provided with a faith to replace the one Japan had lost. Simultaneously, SCAP's Information and Education Section set out to fill Japan's schools...