Ashwani Gupta

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Yoshida Shigeru, who served as prime minister in 1946–1947 and again from 1948 to 1954—belittled the very possibility of making Japan democratic. In Yoshida’s typically elitist argument, the Japanese people were not capable of genuine self-government, and anyone who argued otherwise was either blinded by ethnocentrism or hypnotized by left-wing propaganda.
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
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