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Post-WWII Japan did not have a dictator, which was its period of greatest rise in prosperity.
by dudeinjapan 1y ago
Post-WWII Japan did not have a dictator, which was its period of greatest rise in prosperity.
- paleotrope 1y agoDouglas MacArthur though.
- dudeinjapan 1y agoMacArthur was there till 1952 and was tasked with rebuilding, establishing a viable democratic government, then exiting. The majority of growth came after him. Compare to Mao, Stalin, and other dictators of the era.
- rayiner 1y agoMcArthur did way more than that, including things like land reform, welfare programs, censoring media, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Commander_for_the_Allied_Powers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Commander_for_the_Alli.... In some ways, he was a “good authoritarian” like Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore.
- rayiner 1y agoJapan was like several european countries in having a monarch in the 19th-early 20th century who developed a modern centralized state, and then having war lead to democracy in the 20th century. Then you had McArthur rule as a dictator for seven years during which time he imposed major government reforms, including land reform and welfare reform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Commander_for_the_Allied_Powers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Commander_for_the_Alli.... After the end of occupation, a single party, LDP, held power for almost 40 years, from 1955-1993.