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8/8/2025, 8:40:43 AM
>>64092277
The Japanese also kept demanding the right to keep at least some of their conquered territories, exemption from war crimes trials, that there be no occupation of the Home Islands, and not disarm. If the US had accepted these terms, not only would Truman have been politically crucified for being seen as caving in to Japanese demands (causing the New Deal coalition to implode 20 years earlier than it actually did and basically hand the country to the Republicans for the next few decades), but Japan itself would have essentially remained an unrepentant and unreconstructed militarist power, which had caused the war in the first place.
This would have made the Cold War in Asia even worse than it already was because instead of a Japan that's a prosperous democratic Western-aligned bulwark against China and the USSR, you have a highly unstable Japan still ruled by a de facto military junta that may potentially swing in the Soviets' favor if Moscow proves more willing to acquiesce to their demand to keep enslaving Koreans.
>>64092362
>As part of the Reverse Course, thousands of conservative and nationalist wartime leaders were de-purged and allowed to reenter politics and government ministries
They may have been let off the hook but they were also completely politically neutered in the process as ex-Nazis were. No more screaming for bloody race war against the Occidentals. No more beheading dissidents for wrongthink. No more anti-Korean pogroms. And no more coups.
>Which leads to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon_Kaigi and more recently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanseit%C5%8D
Let's be honest, these parties are fringe lunatics in Japanese politics that will never gain any significant traction short of a total collapse of the current geopolitical order.
The Japanese also kept demanding the right to keep at least some of their conquered territories, exemption from war crimes trials, that there be no occupation of the Home Islands, and not disarm. If the US had accepted these terms, not only would Truman have been politically crucified for being seen as caving in to Japanese demands (causing the New Deal coalition to implode 20 years earlier than it actually did and basically hand the country to the Republicans for the next few decades), but Japan itself would have essentially remained an unrepentant and unreconstructed militarist power, which had caused the war in the first place.
This would have made the Cold War in Asia even worse than it already was because instead of a Japan that's a prosperous democratic Western-aligned bulwark against China and the USSR, you have a highly unstable Japan still ruled by a de facto military junta that may potentially swing in the Soviets' favor if Moscow proves more willing to acquiesce to their demand to keep enslaving Koreans.
>>64092362
>As part of the Reverse Course, thousands of conservative and nationalist wartime leaders were de-purged and allowed to reenter politics and government ministries
They may have been let off the hook but they were also completely politically neutered in the process as ex-Nazis were. No more screaming for bloody race war against the Occidentals. No more beheading dissidents for wrongthink. No more anti-Korean pogroms. And no more coups.
>Which leads to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon_Kaigi and more recently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanseit%C5%8D
Let's be honest, these parties are fringe lunatics in Japanese politics that will never gain any significant traction short of a total collapse of the current geopolitical order.
8/8/2025, 8:17:30 AM
>>64092277
The Japanese also kept demanding the right to keep at least some of their conquered territories, exemption from war crimes trials, that there be no occupation of the Home Islands, and not disarm. If the US had accepted these terms, not only would Truman have been politically crucified for being seen as caving in to Japanese demands (causing the New Deal coalition to implode 20 years earlier than it actually did and basically hand the country to the Republicans for the next few decades), but Japan itself would have essentially remained an unrepentant and unreconstructed militarist power, which had caused the war in the first place.
This would have made the Cold War in Asia even worse than it already was because of having Japan as a democratic Western-aligned bulwark against China and the USSR, you have a highly unstable Japan still ruled by a de facto military junta that may potentially swing in the Soviets' favor if Moscow proves more willing to acquiesce to their demand to keep enslaving Koreans.
The Japanese also kept demanding the right to keep at least some of their conquered territories, exemption from war crimes trials, that there be no occupation of the Home Islands, and not disarm. If the US had accepted these terms, not only would Truman have been politically crucified for being seen as caving in to Japanese demands (causing the New Deal coalition to implode 20 years earlier than it actually did and basically hand the country to the Republicans for the next few decades), but Japan itself would have essentially remained an unrepentant and unreconstructed militarist power, which had caused the war in the first place.
This would have made the Cold War in Asia even worse than it already was because of having Japan as a democratic Western-aligned bulwark against China and the USSR, you have a highly unstable Japan still ruled by a de facto military junta that may potentially swing in the Soviets' favor if Moscow proves more willing to acquiesce to their demand to keep enslaving Koreans.
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