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> It simply boggles my mind all the things US did to Japan when they were booming ...and also before WW2, which pushed Japan into war.
by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> It simply boggles my mind all the things US did to Japan when they were booming
...and also before WW2, which pushed Japan into war.
- catalogia 6y agoThe US also upset the Tokugawa Shogunate, the isolationist military-fuelaistic government which had ruled Japan for more than two hundred years. I don't think any of this is so clear cut.
- varjag 6y agoInto the war with the United States. Japan has been waging its imperialist war by that point, which exactly was what has prompted the embargo.
- ShinTakuya 6y agoSo is it not interesting that the US went to great efforts to keep the same corrupt government in place that attacked them just because the alternative was socialism?