When Americans finally landed on Japan.’ they ruled with a pretty heavy iron fist. Anything less than total subservience was met with swift and deadly response. No messing around was allowed in the least. Incredibly strict but fair.
Do you have any citations for that?
In Germany that was certainly the case. From my readings of the history of the occupation, the heaviest iron fist goes to the USSR in their occupation zone as you would expect. A distant second place goes to France. One book I read claims that France in their occupation zone purposely starved a million Germans to death. Did it by being deliberately incompetent in food distribution! Then the UK a further distance third; I don’t remember reading about the Brits committing any vengeance atrocities, but it wouldn’t surprise me that they did. The US was a very distant fourth; tough but again I don’t remember reading about any deliberate cruelties.
I’ve never heard of any definitive books on the history of the US occupation of Japan.