Leo v the 'Yellow Peril'

[Max Sawicky]

All the evidence of racism is well-taken, but it is
belied by the contrast between actual U.S. policy after
the war and the quote below.  US seemed more interested
in rehabilitating Japan, perhaps out of anti-communism,
than plunging it into sustained destitution.  Ideology
trumped chauvinism, at least in the practical realm,
unless you want to argue that anti-chinese racism made
friendship w/Japan a priority.

mbs

. . . In May 1943, when a top US government committee first discussed the
question of how to treat Japan after the war, the navy's representative,
Captain HL Pence, was in no doubt that 'Japan should be bombed... so
that the country could not begin to recuperate for 50 years'. . . .