ABSTRACT
Many well-informed historians, political scientists and states-men who have written about the Occupation of Japan feel it was a success; only a few feel otherwise. Everyone agrees that mistakes were made, some big ones, some trivial. My position on this matter is that on the whole the Occupation of Japan was remarkably successful. It was unique in many ways, and the American people can justifiably claim that Japan's 'economic miracle' owes much to the fact that the US provided not only food that prevented starvation but much other help designed to assist the Japanese to overcome the tragic circumstances they faced at the end of World War II.
