Why did the US help rebuild Japan when the Japanese had ruthlessly attacked so many times, and was so stubborn about surrendering?
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Because we needed and wanted a presence in that area of the world after WWII ended. China and the Soviet Union were communist, North Korea was as well, and we needed/wanted to make sure that Japan didn’t side with them. We negotiated to have military bases in Japan essentially in perpetuity, which let us continue to project power in that part of the world even thought it’s all the way across the Pacific Ocean.
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