I’m trying to wrap my head around how the USA and Japan shifted from being fierce enemies during World War II to becoming close allies in just a few decades. It seems like a huge turnaround in international relations from an American perspective. What happened and why this dramatic change?
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A lot of these answers are from the American perspective, but from Japan’s perspective, after suffering from war and constant bombing for so long, everyone is really just tired of the shit.
When America came to provide help, massive amount of it and literally rebuilt the nation, they saw it as an apology and amazing reparations from US for the war, and that there are good time ahead. Also helps that the most hardcore dissenters probably died already.
When you destroy something but dont help rebuild it into something better you get perpetual war like in the middle east.
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