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