13thredarmy wrote:This is not a well known plan hence the reason you asked the question in the first place.
This is a well known plan in Japan which I wasn't aware of.
13thredarmy wrote:And China occupying Japan ... which Chinese exactly and weren't they fully back in the business of slaughtering each other by that point ?
At the time of August 16 when this plan was submitted, the KMT army and the communist army were not at war. They were still allied for defeating Japan.
And this plan was cancelled because of Chiang Kai Shek strongly opposed to it. He was not interested in occupying Japan. He sticked to his belief "以德报怨", "Return good for evil".
13thredarmy wrote:Again, these "plans" are nonsense. interesting but nothing more.
The original question was "did the allies have any of these plans" ? No !
No, this plan existed obviously. The document number of this plan was JWPC385-1.
The following is a part of an article by a Japanese historian Kikuji Takayuki (菊地隆之), titled as "The Introduction of Iokibe Makoto's 'The US Occupation Policy of Japan' "(
五百旗頭真『米国の日本占領政策』の紹介). Iokibe Makoto is a famous Japanese political scientist who wrote an article (he got Santory award for academic achievements for this article) on the US occupation policy in Chuokohron (
中央公論) in 1985.
http://www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~knagai/00 ... kuchi.html
占領開始期は、予想される終戦時の軍事的状況から米国がほぼ単独で占領せざるを得ず、二十三個師団・八十五万人の米軍を投入する。彼らは日本の抵抗を高く評価し、組織的抵抗が終わったあとも、日本各地における反乱やサボタージュに備えるため、一年間はこの大軍を維持する必要があると考える。他方、米軍を早急に帰国させるべきは、リーヒ・メモの強調するとおりである。それゆえ、三ヶ月目からの第二局面には、五十三万五千人の米軍を撤収させ各国軍に肩代わりさせる。さらに一年を経た後の第三局面では各国兵力を半数以下に削減し、米軍は十三万五千人、全体の三分の一強を占めるのみとなる。
This paragraph tells that the allies had the three stage-plan for the occupation of Japan. From the second stage, allied forces other than US forces were to participate in occupation of Japan.
