CHRONOLOGY
1951 |
San Francisco Peace Treaty and end of Occupation 1952 with a selective undoing of GHQ reforms launched |
1947 |
Cold War GHQ switch from social reform to economic policy and bureaucrats pinpoint key production targets |
1943 |
Joint Operations Act forces trust companies into banks GHQ enforces for 7 major zaibatsu stragglers in 1948 |
GLOSSARY
GHQ |
General MacArthur's General Head Quarters |
generally used label for Occupation Administration era 1945 - 1952 |
aristocrats |
peerage created in Meiji Era for an Upper House |
peerage abolished and wealth extinguished by GHQ + bureaucrats in alliance |
fuyuzei |
confiscatory wealth tax of late 1940s |
GHQ + bureaucrats used it to bankrupt the pre War aristocracy cf sozokuzeiho |
honcho |
Big Boss |
exceptionally surviving in financial English from GHQ era pidgin |