Title: JAPAN AFTER WORLD WAR II: HARDSHIPS, MACARTHUR, THE AMERICAN OCCUPATION AND REFORMS | Facts and Details
Headings: JAPAN AFTER WORLD WAR II: HARDSHIPS, MACARTHUR, THE AMERICAN OCCUPATION AND REFORMS
JAPAN AFTER WORLD WAR II: HARDSHIPS, MACARTHUR, THE AMERICAN OCCUPATION AND REFORMS
JAPAN AFTER WORLD WAR II
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Hardships and Optimism in Japan After World War II
Emperor Hirohito After World War II
Americans, Hirohito and War Responsibility
MacArthur and Japan After World War II
American Occupation of Japan After World War II
American Influence on Japan After World War II
Reforms and Changes in Japan After World War II
New Peace Constitution in Japan
Foreign Policy in Japan After World War II
Economic Reforms in Japan After World War II
Land Reforms in Japan after World War II
Reforms That Didn't Occur
Buried Poison Gas and Bombs

Content: Few Japanese had any money but there really wasn't anything to buy anyway. People were so desperate for something to eat they hitched rides on freight trains to the countryside where they traded old clothes for sweet potatoes. Some scavenged for grass and bark to survive. On the streets former soldiers and amputees begged for food. Many people had their growth stunted by malnutrition. Joichi Ito, a Japanese -American venture capitalist born in the 1960s, wrote in the International Herald Tribune: “ My grandparent generation remembers the sufferings, but tries to forget it. My present generation still does not trust the military." Takehiko Ena was a kamikaze pilot that survived because of mechanical problems on his plane that occurred after take off. Justin McCurry wrote in The Guardian, His “relief that the war was over gave way to optimism about the future, even as Japan set about rebuilding its devastated cities and counted the human cost of its militarist adventure on the Asian mainland. “