[sd-joe]

Could the US government have ever predicted the long term benefits of its OCCUPATION of Japan.

[bonesmccoy]

Occupation of Japan isn't the reason the Japanese are helping the US. They're helping us because they need the US to defend Japanese territory against North Korea.

While I am certain that neither FDR nor Truman had the foresight to predict this outcome (after all, they were trying to kill off the Japanese), the Ike/Nixon/Ford/Reagan people created trade and profit across the Pacific.

[Gumption]

I agree. Who'd have thunk it.