HIS 1710 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Zaibatsu, Egalitarianism, National Diet
5 Nov 2016
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The impact was all greater because japan at the time was physically exhausted by war and plunged into spiritual and intellectual confusion by defeat. Assuming a japanese defeat as inevitable, it is still possible to imagine several other outcomes to war than the one that did occur. In that case japan might not have been aided by foreign technology and capital or found world markets open to the products of her factories. U(cid:374)der these (cid:272)ir(cid:272)u(cid:373)sta(cid:374)(cid:272)es the post(cid:449)ar (cid:862)e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)i(cid:272) (cid:373)ira(cid:272)le(cid:863) (cid:449)ould pro(cid:271)a(cid:271)l(cid:455) (cid:374)ot ha(cid:448)e taken place and japan would be still a desperately poor and hopelessly overpopulated land. My own guess would be that, after an initial victory of the left, there would have been a crushing reaction of the right. In either case the political system and probably social and economic conditions would have turned out quite differently from the way they have in actuality.
