The Japan-American Trade War
Beginning of paper
For years after the end of the second world war, the Japanese suffered
from an inferiority complex. This was the result of the American aid to
Japan which helped to rebuild their country. Soon the Japanese started
producing goods, small stuff at first, like junky toys in the earlier years
- but t ....
Middle of paper
.... in China changed this, because the Americans wanted to stop the
further advance of communism. Americans started to help Japan out by not
making them pay reparations for war damages and opened Japanese trade to
other countries. The Americans dissolved the powerful family businesses
which opened business to more competition and in the countryside, they took
land from the landlords and gave it to the tenant farmers. By the time
American occupation ended in 1952, Japan had returned to pr ....
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