operation. General Douglans MacArthur, sole supreme commander of the

Allied Power was in charge. The Americans had insufficient men to make

a military government of Japan possible; so they decided to act

through the existing Japanese gobernment. General MacArthur became,

except in name, dictator of Japan. He imposed his will on Japan.

Demilitarization was speedily carried out, demobilization of the

former imperial forces was completed by early 1946.

Japan was extensively fire bomded during the second world war.

The stench of sewer gas, rotting garbage, and the acrid smell of ashes

and scorched debris pervaded the air. The Japanese people had to live

in the damp, and cold of the concrete buildings, because they were the

only ones left. Little remained of the vulnerable wooden frame, tile

roof dwelling lived in by most Japanese. When the first signs of

winter set in, the occupation forces immediately took over all the

steam-heated buildings. The Japanese were out in the cold in the first

post war winter fuel was very hard to find, a family was considered

lucky if they had a small barely glowing charcoal brazier to huddle

The treaty of peace with Japan was signed at San Francisco in

September 1951 by Japan, the United States, and forty-seven other

proved to be a blessing in disguise. Japan became the main staging

the insignificance of the unpleasant. For the Japanese, the nobility

took a decidedly more radical turn. In the desperate economic

"Send me food, or send me bullets." American troops were forbidden to

parliamentary form of government that the Japanese had been moving

large vessels, had been badly decimated by the war and because the

minor changes, was then adopted by the Japanese government in the form

but by the government. Direct political action therefore seemed more

committee, recommended minimum imports to Japan of 870,000 tons of

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