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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It’s complex, and what I’m about to say is very oversimplified, but the US occupied Japan after the war and essentially turned its government into an American -style democracy, but at the same time let its emperor keep his role albeit as essentially a figurehead not too unlike the British Monarchy.
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