Title: JAPAN AFTER WORLD WAR II: HARDSHIPS, MACARTHUR, THE AMERICAN OCCUPATION AND REFORMS | Facts and Details
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JAPAN AFTER WORLD WAR II
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JAPAN AFTER WORLD WAR II: HARDSHIPS, MACARTHUR, THE AMERICAN OCCUPATION AND REFORMS
JAPAN AFTER WORLD WAR II
Nagasaki after the war World War II left about 3 million dead and many cities in ashes from U.S. firebombings. Close to 9 million people were homeless. " Everything had been flattened," the journalist Russell Brines wrote. " Only thumbs stood up from the flatlands --- the chimneys of bathhouses, heavy house safes and an occasional stout building with heavy iron shutters." In his book Embracing Defeat, John Dower wrote: " The first photographs and newsreel footage from the conquered land captured these endless vistas of urban rubble for American audiences thousands of miles away who had never really grasped what it meant to incinerate great cities." With the same energy, commitment and discipline that characterized the process of modernization in the Meiji period, the Japanese pulled themselves up by their bootstraps after World War II and transformed their nation into a strong democracy and an economic dynamo. Many Japanese see the postwar Showa era---from 1946 to 1989---as a time when Japan faced its challenges and accomplished things no one thought was possible, giving the Japanese a collective sense of achievement and great hopes for the future.