Anger is a gift (Happy 3rd Anniversary!)

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I don't know all of the details. Only that there was a definite military occupation under complete US authority for a period of around six years.

I would guess there were curfews, military checkpoints, numerous restricted locations, blah, blah, blah.

I have no doubt that there were many, many insurgents. The Japanese were not living in a culture built around the concept of surrender, which is why so many battles in WWII in the Pacific cost so many allied lives. The Japanese fought to the death, as surrender was not an option.

I would guess that it was far worse for the first three years in Japan than it has been in Iraq, but I have no way to prove that. The destruction imposed on Japan is so much larger in scope than what was done in Iraq that there is no way to draw a comparison.