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Science - Japan - History. --- Technology - Japan - History. --- Science and state - Japan - History. --- Technology and state - Japan - History. --- Japan - History - Allied occupation,1945-1952.

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In this novel and intriguing book, Michael Schaller traces the origins of the Cold War in Asia to the postwar occupation of Japan by U.S. troops. Determined to secure Japan as a bulwark against both Soviet expansion and Asian revolution, the U.S. instituted ambitious social and economic reforms under the direction of the flamboyant Occupation Commander, General Douglas MacArthur. MacArthur was later denounced by the Truman Administration as a ""bunko artist"" who had wrecked Japan's economy and opened it to Communist influence, and power was shifted to Japan's old elite. Cut off from its forme

Japan -- Foreign relations -- United States. --- Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952. --- Southeast Asia -- Foreign relations -- United States. --- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1953. --- United States -- Foreign relations -- Japan. --- United States -- Foreign relations -- Southeast Asia. --- International relations. --- Japan --- Southeast Asia --- United States --- Foreign relations --- History