The U.S. Army in Post World War II Japan - Chapter 2

[jukio02]

im glad japan gave up and let america step in and take charge

[Eugene38]

putang inang nagsasalitang yan kinakain yung salita nya... nakakaantok pa...

[madalingalalahanin]

tama ka.. ahahahaha! the speaker its much of his words.. too annoying..

[armyinhell]

@Eugene38 idi ikaw ang magsalita you can`t afford to study pa MAKINIG KANALNG ULOL walang silbi

[andayamartin]

Bush should have used the MacArthur formula for occupation in Iraq... instead he obliterated all govt institutions...

[Seiku]

@andayamartin Except you couldn't use Hussein in similar fashion as Hirohito.

[braveTOMINATOR]

@andayamartin

I understand where you're coming from, but the problem is that a lot of what MacArthur did in Japan was meant to prevent a Japanese resistance movement. In Iraq, there was an insurgency from just about day one.

A model akin to the occupation of post-war Germany was used partly because, like Germany, there was an autocratic dictatorship in place, and therefore very hard to create a working dictator-free government without major restructuring of government institutions.

[humbleradio]

@andayamartin Actually, that's not correct. The coalition forces tried to use Iraqi government heads. It didn't work. Japan is not Iraq. Japan is a highly hierarchical society. Iraq was a dictatorship, a tyranny, with those few at the top and everyone else in fear. Japan was essentially a conglomeration of small nation states.

[Yimroth]

the world is a strange place.

[nitsujj2007]

it means he have to be punished for what he have done as a war criminal and not an easy death by just killing himself

[aaorgela]

Gen. Hideki Tojo.He was revived and then executed.Where is the logic in that.

[lowbridgehit]

Where was the logic of mass civilian murder, rape and forced slave labour of prisoners of war by the japs?

[andayamartin]

You cannot escape the long arms of the law... justice must be served... may he burn in hell forever.....

[aznsbd]

War criminals a treated differently in Japan. In Germany they were executed or given long prison sentences, in Japan their ashes are enshrined in the Yaskuni Shrine and visited by modern day politicians. There is no justice.