General MacArthur, who oversaw occupation and reconstruction, is generally well regarded in Japan due to his mercy and helpfulness, when vengeance would have been very easy. In fact, vengeance was expected as that was how imperial japan rolled.
Also replacing the alphabet doesn't even seem practical without absolute conquest - like murdering all teachers and shit. And as popular as the "america bad" narrative is, we were never that far gone.
Stalin was a dick, yes. Which makes a story of him in the early days of the Cold War stumbling into doing the right thing simply to fuck with his new enemies believable. Of course he didn't care about the Japs, but he had an opportunity to make things harder on us and apparently took it.
You don't believe it but its true. Look it up. They (John Pelzel a member of GHQ) even complained when they found out the literecy rates was high and told the guy who was responsible for setting up the Japanese litereacy test that it needed to show that it was low
Believe it or not Stalin even talked Mao out of romanizing the Chinese language also. Not quite sure why but its true. Look it up .
I don't believe this.
General MacArthur, who oversaw occupation and reconstruction, is generally well regarded in Japan due to his mercy and helpfulness, when vengeance would have been very easy. In fact, vengeance was expected as that was how imperial japan rolled.
Also replacing the alphabet doesn't even seem practical without absolute conquest - like murdering all teachers and shit. And as popular as the "america bad" narrative is, we were never that far gone.
Also, Stalin is not really known as a champion of individual rights and cultural preservation. Notably, he did exactly what you are fucking trying to credit him with preventing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillisation_in_the_Soviet_Union
Stalin was a dick, yes. Which makes a story of him in the early days of the Cold War stumbling into doing the right thing simply to fuck with his new enemies believable. Of course he didn't care about the Japs, but he had an opportunity to make things harder on us and apparently took it.
You don't believe it but its true. Look it up. They (John Pelzel a member of GHQ) even complained when they found out the literecy rates was high and told the guy who was responsible for setting up the Japanese litereacy test that it needed to show that it was low
Believe it or not Stalin even talked Mao out of romanizing the Chinese language also. Not quite sure why but its true. Look it up .