Comments by "Voryn Rosethorn" (@vorynrosethorn903) on "Absolute Mad Lads - Otoya Yamaguchi" video.

For context in the pre-occupation Japanese government assassinations were a very common way of directing politics, usually by underground factions of young military officers (despite the stereotypes they mostly weren't from samurai families but rather from the agricultural peasantry, they were used to hardship and utterly fanatical militarists, nationalists and supporters of the divinity and supremacy of the Emperor, the Imperial prescript on education had emphasised they they be indoctrinated into such ideals). Even high military commanders feared assassination if they didn't fully support 'patriotic' actions such as multiple wars which were started by insubordinate local military forces, unsurprisingly the whole political situation was a shitshow.
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Unfortunately the socialist party continued to have a great deal of support from within the Japanese education system, the Americans banned supporters of the pre-war order from being teachers which meant that the profession became dominated by Socialist party members. Luckily until relatively recently (they just introduced lgbt education in schools) the parent associations and ministry of education were able to block most subversion, the decline in housewives due to government attempts to get women into the workforce lowering wages substantially has probably resulted in a lot less on the ground supervision and accountability in terms of what the schools are doing, as ever American influence is also very negative (this has likely happened under direct pressure from the US). Shinzo Abe's death will also be a great loss to any attempt at resistance or preservation.
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One of the other tensions during occupation was mass sexual violence by US troops, it was never Red Army levels but it was close and it went on a lot longer.
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