Although I wonder how much of that was helped by the US post WWII to counter communism. I remember looking online for something like 'how did japan become so we

Although I wonder how much of that was helped by the US post WWII to counter communism. I remember looking online for something like 'how did japan become so wealthy after WWII considered how much they lost after WWII. I got a few links like this one: https://www.quora.com/How-did-Japan-become-wealthy https://www.quora.com/How-did-Japan-become-wealthy (points 1 and 3 of first answer, second answer is interesting as well) And what I got form it was that in was in the US' interest to have successful capitalist countries in the area during the cold war. Because there was so much communist influence is that area of the world.