ABSTRACT
Freed from the authority of SCAP, the Yoshida government moved to revise some of the reforms that had been introduced, thus giving rise to a trend that the opposition labeled a “reverse course,” a tendency some critics see as emerging earlier when SCAP began to adopt its anti-Communist stance. The confrontation between the government and its critics, led by the opposition parties, labor unions, students, and intellectuals, became increasingly acrimonious.
