HIS 1111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Permanent Employment, Fordism, Mercury Poisoning
23 Jan 2018
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Mcarthur = wants to occupy japan and make it a western democracy. Things started to change, mcarthur was acting based on international pressures i. e communists trying to influence japan. Japan became america"s last strong hold in asia (domino theory) So they started cracking down to control them. In 1941 they allowed them to emerge as an independent country. America was actually trying to help even though their method was flawed. But after 1950, the japanese got control and remolded their society. Japanese miracle: complete transformation to the world"s second largest economy in the 1980s. 1950"s post war attitudes = shikata ga nai or nothing can be done about it . A big focus was on rebuilding infrastructure and industrializing agriculture and assimilating peasants into urban factories but during this process, japan suffered turbulence. Violence of a class nature between workers and industrialists. Japan started to make reforms that would become the basis of the.
