| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Book Review

Partners for Democracy: Crafting the New Japanese State under MacArthur. By Ray A. Moore and Donald L. Robinson. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xiv, 409 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-19-515116-X. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-19-517176-4.)

Over 2,600 years of Japanese history came to an end on that fateful day of August 14, 1945, when Emperor Hirohito informed an Imperial War Conference at 11:00 a.m. in the air raid shelter of the Imperial Palace that the war in the Pacific was over and that he intended to broadcast that decision to the people the following day. The Japanese were now to endure the unendurable, and so began a new journey into modern nation building. The Pacific holocaust had been a vicious and brutal war of horrors, but now with the surrender of the Japanese imperial forces, it was time for American idealism to prevail. Led by Gen. Douglas MacArthur's missionary zeal, American forces would spiritually resurrect the Japanese nation on Christian principles. In addition, the twin doctrines of democratization and demilitarization would ensure that Japan would never again become a menace to peace and security in the world.

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