Revealing the relationship between the United States and Japan, how does the United States control the whole of Japan? The grudge goes on for a hundred years
The hibiscus poisonous fog was filled, and I was silent in my self-retreat. A steamer cannon sounded, waking up the dream among the flowers.
This poem by Mr. Huang Zunxian, a scholar of modern Chinese history, depicts the horror of the Japanese people when the Tokugawa shogunate faced the knock of an American steamship.
Since then, Japan has entered modern history, and much like China, has been forced to integrate into the capitalist global market.
The U.S.-Japan relationship is complex, with a century of grievances and grievances, sometimes hostile struggles, and sometimes seemingly allies.
U.S.-Japan relations. 
On a summer day in 1853, four advanced steamships solemnly sailed into the port of Uraga in Japan, as if they were uninhabited, as if they were blind to everything around them.
At that time, ordinary Japanese people had never seen such a huge ship, and the black smoke rising from the ship from time to time made the workers at the port even more panicked.
The shogunate rulers were powerless to resist and had no choice but to accept Perry's (commander of the U.S. East India Fleet) credentials, forcing Japan to open its borders.
The purpose of Perry's trip is clear and clear, and everything is money-oriented. The letter called for the establishment of diplomatic relations with Japan, the opening of treaty ports, the rescue of shipwrecked American ships, and the provision of food and coal resources.
Perry. 
The opening of treaty ports actually saw Japan as a transit point, and the United States chose to avoid its rival Britain in order to sell a large number of cotton products produced in China to China;
Most of the ships killed were American whaling ships, and the fat from the whales could be used as lamp oil to meet the factory's nighttime lighting needs.
Rightly or wrongly, Japan was forced to open its borders, sparking discontent among domestic intellectuals.
Subsequently, after the two major events of the "Great Restoration of the Great Government" and the "Meiji Restoration", Japan completed the modernization reform, and soon after won the Russo-Japanese War, it rose to become a world-class country, impressing the European and American powers.
Russo-Japanese War. 
Under the so-called prosperous times, there must be hidden worries. The victory in foreign wars gave birth to militaristic ideas in Japan, and the Juche nation, the Yamato nation, admired the spirit of bushido.
In the process of integrating into the capitalist market, Japan has not been able to cope with the problem of overproduction.
The Great Depression of 1929-1933 led to high unemployment in Japan, widespread discontent, and questionable legitimacy. Under the influence of various factors, Japan could not avoid the road of fascism of foreign aggression.
In World War II, Japan suffered a heavy defeat at the hands of the United States. The United States then completely transformed Japan and successfully controlled its direction, and it still does today.
World war ii. 
Although Japan is a small country, it can be regarded as a large area from a European perspective, and its population has reached 1200 million, ranking 11th in the world.
Full control of Japan is not an easy task, and this requires the strength of a superpower, namely the United States.
When it comes to the transformation of Japan by the United States, MacArthur cannot be ignored, at that time he was the commander-in-chief of the US forces stationed in Japan, and he fully participated in the reform of Japan, so he had the title of "five-star emperor".
MacArthur. 
Reform the military system. The United States first subdued Japan by force, and reforming Japan's military system became the primary task. The United States has mastered force on two main levels.
First of all, at the administrative level, the Japanese army and navy were disarmed, and this goal was accomplished in just over a month. Destroyed and dismantled a military factory used for the production of munitions during World War II.
The second is the legal level, where in 1946 the "Decree on the Rectification of Public Offices" was promulgated, which purged militarists and severely tried war criminals. About 940 people were executed, and another 220,000, the vast majority of them military officers, were expelled from the political, industrial, educational, and ** spheres.
In 1948, Class A war criminals were sentenced and executed at the Tokyo Trial. Although MacArthur compromised with Japan to some extent in order to confront the Soviet Union, he also eliminated some of Japan's extreme right-wing forces to a certain extent.
Japan is subject to multiple checks and balances by the United States, including the promulgation of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty and the Peace Constitution. Article 9 of the Peace Constitution clearly stipulates that Japan will forever renounce the right to wage war with its national power and only retain the right to self-defense. This deprived Japan of the legal basis for its foreign aggression. The United States forced Japan to sign the "U.S.-Japan Security Treaty," which binds Japan's maritime and air self-defense forces under the U.S. military flag and stipulates the right of the United States to station troops in Japan.
Economically, the United States took a laissez-faire approach to Japan in the early years after the end of World War II. However, with the outbreak of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, the United States realized the need to help Japan with its economic revival. Joseph Dodge implemented the "Dodge Plan" to promote Japan's economic miracle by abolishing ** subsidies and adjusting the exchange rate. However, it has also locked in Japan's economic ceiling.
In terms of resources, Japan is dependent on the United States, especially in the field of oil and food. The U.S. exerted economic control over Japan by controlling key sectors such as high technology and oil, leading to fluctuations in the Japanese economy, including the collapse of the real estate bubble triggered by the Plaza Accord, which plunged Japan into the "lost three decades".
At the ideological level, the United States weakened the sanctity of the emperor by reforming Japan's constitution and education system, separating Japan's Shinto religion from the imperial family. MacArthur radically changed Japanese thinking by removing the emperor's divinity from the constitution and emphasizing democracy and individuality through a Westernized education system.
While Japan is currently constrained on many fronts, once it breaks free from these constraints, its underlying nationalism could reawaken as the primary challenge for the United States. This national identity is deeply rooted in Japan's history and culture, and it only takes one moment for Japan to reassert its fangs.
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