Sam
My son is doing a project for school and needs some info on
Democracy in Japan, or Japan after the war. I did a search
and not much came up, any ideas.
Go to your library and borrow a copy of "American Caesar," a book about MacArthur's establishment of democracy in Japan. That book will no doubt have reference pages that will be of value to your young scholar. My high school US History book contained a political cartoon from that period depicting MacArthur as a baseball coach standing behind a Japanese batter and to the side of the Japanese catcher. The caption read "The object of the game is to hit the ball, not the players." If he could scan that cartoon into his project it would add value.
You can view the abstracts of each chapter for free
These may provide some info other wise like KiloWhiskey said "American Ceasar" is an excellent resource.