HST 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Corncob, Hirohito, Bastion
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Beatte - woman who lived in japan, went to different libraries taking constitutions. Japan was amazed at how well they were being treated. Japanese had lost the war and spread themselves to all of asia - but colonial act (arrogant) and american did not know much about japan. Met less than 100 japanese people in his time in japan. Wore a hat that was squished and full of insignia. In charge of allied forces and engineered maneuver in korea. Leaders tried to retrain him to become a democrat. Many thought he should"ve been tried as a war criminal. Debates with macarthur"s team, thought he should"ve been there with tojo (war lord) Recreating japan to be similar to america (during occupation) Did the opposite of censoring - romances, etc. On the japanese side, they had freedom of expression as long as it didn"t aggravate. Policy - at the beginning, all four were fine.
