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    The document discusses several aspects of the occupation of Japan after World War 2, including: 1) The drafting of Japan's new constitution which was prompted by the occupiers as the initial Japanese proposals did not sufficiently protect civil rights. 2) Demilitarization of Japanese forces and the break up of the large economic combines known as Zaibatsu which concentrated economic power. 3) The redistribution of farmland as part of restructuring economic power in Japan. 4) Discussion of debates around trying Emperor Hirohito as a war criminal in the early days of the occupation.

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    The document discusses several aspects of the occupation of Japan after World War 2, including: 1) The drafting of Japan's new constitution which was prompted by the occupiers as the initial Japanese proposals did not sufficiently protect civil rights. 2) Demilitarization of Japanese forces and the break up of the large economic combines known as Zaibatsu which concentrated economic power. 3) The redistribution of farmland as part of restructuring economic power in Japan. 4) Discussion of debates around trying Emperor Hirohito as a war criminal in the early days of the occupation.

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    The document discusses several aspects of the occupation of Japan after World War 2, including: 1) The drafting of Japan's new constitution which was prompted by the occupiers as the initial Japanese proposals did not sufficiently protect civil rights. 2) Demilitarization of Japanese forces and the break up of the large economic combines known as Zaibatsu which concentrated economic power. 3) The redistribution of farmland as part of restructuring economic power in Japan. 4) Discussion of debates around trying Emperor Hirohito as a war criminal in the early days of the occupation.

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    Question on transformation;

    Drafting of the constitution


    Demilitarisation
    Industrial relations and the promotion of the labour movement
    Zaibatsu reform (affects distribution of power in Japanese society)
    In what sense, if any, do you consider the occupation of Japan to have been a success?

    Conflict between the indigenous bodies and the occupier the American had been prompted to
    engage in the drafting of a constitution by the occupation authorities, precisely because the initial
    Japanese proposals were based on the understanding of liberalizing political changed as essentially
    a function of increased power for the legislature. This inevitably led to an almost complete neglect of
    liberalizing highly prized, by Americans in particular, to with the constitutional protection of civil and
    human rights and the role of the judiciary as a means of assuring these.
    Occupiers have sought to break up concentrations of economic power and redistribute resources. In
    Japan that meant the break up of the economic combines, the Zaibatsu companies and the
    restribution of farm land.




    Emperor
    Ten days before MaArthurs first meeting with Hirohito, Senator Richard Russell of Georgia
    introduced a resolution in Congress calling for trying the emperor as a war criminal.
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    ops&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ZaJ5U626C8TsPLXQgNgI&ved=0CDUQuwUwAA#v=onepage&q=Macarthur%20
    emperor%20million%20troops&f=false

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