Japan was supposed to pay but then the communist scare happened and the US needed a place to put all their anti-communist forces near to Stalin’s back door and Mao’s front door.
Its kind of true actually because Japan set up government policies to increase their cultural exports (including pop culture) partially to make people forget about their actions in WW2 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Japan
Can-I-Haz-Username on July 14th, 2021 at 06:08 UTC »
Japan was supposed to pay but then the communist scare happened and the US needed a place to put all their anti-communist forces near to Stalin’s back door and Mao’s front door.
VIBNK on July 14th, 2021 at 06:59 UTC »
How america pays fo... Wait a minute!
okokokokcok on July 14th, 2021 at 08:40 UTC »
Its kind of true actually because Japan set up government policies to increase their cultural exports (including pop culture) partially to make people forget about their actions in WW2 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Japan