Are the Japanese so lenient towards their American occupiers because, technically, America is the new shogunate?

Are the Japanese so lenient towards their American occupiers because, technically, America is the new shogunate?

Interesting thought

Well, Japan is a vassal state to America.

I wonder if it has to do with stripping them of their military capabilities which atrophied their martial pride and made them dependent on America for their national security.

pretty much the case

America abolished the warrior class so only the mentally castrated peasantry were left

do you mean presently, or during the occupation period 1945-52?

>Gaijin Shogun

well theyve always been servile and shit

More like Japanese are natural cuckolds to the perceived hegemonic power.

No, it was due to money and industry.

The u.s. decided to buy from korean and japanese companies to make them strong, anti communist buffer states.

High standard of living and large amount of autonomy

More like the Japanese know how to play their cards.

Japan was a primarily militaristic society. Following their defeat, their entire society was restructured and their military drive was dismantled.

Follow that up with the introduction of western democracy and capitalism (I'm simplifying things) and the United State's decision to support eastern economies, and you get an aggressive, honor-based workforce driven by capitalistic fever. This is why you have tokyo businessmen working themselves to death.

Also the fact that the empire of Japan absolutely decimated the socialist/communist/anarchist movement

It's because they left the Emperor alone and in turn he was ready to sign a peace treaty. They basically worshiped him as a god during the war and if he was ok with the American occupation so were most people.

Also, it's still better than communism.

Not an expert on the period but it seems to me that the American occupation was amazingly non-retarded.

For example the Japanese constitution was drafted in like a week by a couple of American egghead officers in MacArthur's office that had law degrees but it's actually still used to day. That really should not have gone as smoothly as it did. They didn't make rookie egotistical mistakes like trying to promote a copy of the broken American style of democracy over the much more proven and stable parliamentary system.

I think there's a honeymoon period in genuinely conquered lands when the population is just tired and for real wants to give peace a chance even if they have to swallow some humiliation to do it. Humans are adaptable. During this grace period the occupational government wisely proved themselves uninterested in fucking up Japanese culture or collectively punishing the populace. Then the grace period ended but by that point everyone mostly realized things were on the right path and the worst fears had failed to materialize

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How are the authors of Japan's constitution portrayed in contemporary Japanese society?

I can't imagine they're revered like America's founding fathers.

Only Americans have a deification of the constitution writers.

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>proved themselves uninterested in fucking up Japanese culture or collectively punishing the populace.
Might want to reread your 1945-1947 Japanese history.

I see you never been to Norway

Unlike many Axis countries or even countries in the course of history, Japan never lost its monarchy. Compared to Germany after World War I or Italy after World War II, despite being a major player in World War II and Japanese foreign policy.

The reason for this is because the Japanese fought with such ferocity and devotion in the Emperor's name that the Allies realized if they had removed the emperor forcibly, it would result in long-term insurgency and a rocky unrest. This, the allies were forced to respect the Emperor, who continued to rule past World War II. In short, the allies controlled the Emperor, and the emperor controlled the Japanese.

The Japanese had always respected and revered their Emperor throughout the eras. Even during the age of the shogunate where the emperor was more or less a divine figurehead and multiple nations mistook the ruling shogunate as the Emperor.

>Even during the age of the shogunate where the emperor was more or less a divine figurehead and multiple nations mistook the ruling shogunate as the Emperor.
Wrong. Emperor-worship was a Sonno-Joi-Imperial Japan thing.

Before that the Shoguns did sick shit to the Imperial family whenever its meddling, like killing empresses or imprisoning his divine ass in a cave or something.