I hope you're ok. Get well soon.
Questions like this one:
"Still no luck proving Japan's planning worked better that our lack of planning, huh?"
First USA had planning in the past, second conditions of America with huge reserves or space and natural resources are completely different than the small crowded island without resources and with even less inhabitable land.
To demonstrate in a way compelling to you that Japanese policy was closer to the optimum than the alternative one is beyond human strength. Even designing an alternative economical policy for the mere sake of comparison is a PhD assignment.
Different things are obvious to the different people, sorry.