What Shall Be Done About Japan After Victory?

By Kenneth Colegrove,
Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
Rewritten by Richard Hart,
Assistant Librarian at Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore

Contents

Introduction

Why did Japan choose war?

  • It's our problem now
  • What were the causes of aggression?
  • Japan's "divine mission"
  • Why are the Japanese easily led?
  • Military fascism raises its ugly head
  • Tradition and the constitution
  • Discontented militarists
  • The army moves in
  • The first blow
  • Military mutiny
  • The chance of a century
  • Lebensraum and "co-prosperity"

  • Must Japan be disarmed and occupied?
  • How long should occupation last?
  • Are the details all decided?
  • Will collective security answer the need?
  • What will happen to the Empire?
  • Justice to Japan's victims.

  • War criminals
  • Economic recovery in East Asia.
  • Is one kind o f industry harmless?
  • How about Hirohito?
  • What can we do about it?
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