I believe a lot of this is due to the US occupation of Japan after WWII which turned Japan in a democracy and gave it laws modeled after the American New Deal.

I believe a lot of this is due to the US occupation of Japan after WWII which turned Japan in a democracy and gave it laws modeled after the American New Deal. More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Japan#Outcomes_of_the_occupation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Japan#Outcomes_of...