... . It is a supposition devoid of reason. It is based upon assumptions and hearsay. It is not in anyway a reliable argument. Although there is evidence, which indicates one government agency's intelligence service was ineffective, there is no conclusive evidence to suggest that they were all so poorly equipped. (Johnson and Granatstein 105). No evidence is provided to account for their assumption ... example is completely inflammatory. It provides no conclusive evidence of Japanese subversion. The authors admit almost as an after thought that this type of behavior is completely typical of m...

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... of their banks rather than their former family holding companies. In 1945, SCAP (which exercised complete control of all exports and imports of goods and services as well as all foreign exchange transactions) directed the Japanese government to create a single government agency to account for and distribute the goods that SCAP itself imported into Japan and to receive and transfer all ... over Japanese industrial policy. During 1949 SCAP began a policy of transferring some of its own controlling and supervisory powers to the Japanese government. As a result of this the foreign control l...

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... as he was considered to be above such petty human politics, and second, the Japanese code of honor which puts death before dishonor. The Americans had intercepted messages from the Foreign Minister Togo, to Ambassador Sato expressing the desires of the Emperor for a peaceful end to the war, "[h]is Majesty the Emperor, mindful of the fact that the present war daily ... the war on the Allied side. So another alternative could have been to await the Russian entry into the war as an American ally. According to the War Department's Military Intelligence Division, the entry of Russia into the...

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