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[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It absolutely wasnt lmao, it was literally occupied. How is this hard for y'all?

What's more, long after occupation ceased on paper, the US had such an economic, military, and diplomatic stranglehold on Japan that they bailed out the US and killed their own economy in the process in the early 80s