No, not at all. no foreign occupation of Japan The U.S. occupied Japan and had absolute rule over it Japan surrenders occupied territories and returns to pre-

No, not at all. no foreign occupation of Japan The U.S. occupied Japan and had absolute rule over it Japan surrenders occupied territories and returns to pre-war borders Japan was occupied by the U.S. and had zero territorial integrity or control over the Home Islands. Japan handles their own disarmament The U.S. disarmed Japan and actually did so, rather than hide a bunch of war materials prosecution of Japanese war criminals. The U.S. prosecuted many Japanese war criminals, rather than hold a few show trials. retention of the Imperial gov't The Imperial gov't was disbanded and replaced with direct rule by McArthur until the new democratic structure was set up. A figurehead emperor was retained because it was useful to do so. In short, the Japanese surrender terms had to do with Japan as a nation pulling back from its conquests and making some notional gestures at disarmament and prosecution of war criminals. What they got in the end was complete surrender to their enemy who rebuilt their nation the way the enemy decided to. They were lucky insofar as the U.S. desire was to rebuild Japan as a prosperous democratic nation to serve as an eastern bulwark against communist expansion. The German plan for western Russia was to depopulate it and repopulate it with Germans. [edit: fixed formatting]