This isn’t really ‘news’ anymore, but I am glad that you shared this! I suspect that the capitalist press periodically publishes admissions like these for marketing or PR purposes. It’s just one admission, so somebody might conclude that it was exceptional.

Nonetheless, when you put all of these together, like a jigsaw puzzle, a mythology‐shattering image of the U.S.A. (or capitalism in general) emerges.

From 1945 to 1948, the American forces who occupied Japan purged the Government of the right-wing militarists who had led Japan into war. But by 1949, things had changed. […] The American occupation forces freed accused war criminals like Nobusuke Kishi, later Japan’s Prime Minister.

Yep, I had a feeling that there’d be something for me here… it’s funny how easily I can transfer from Europe to Asia in terms of Axis history.

By the way, The Dismantling of Japan’s Empire in East Asia discusses post‐Imperial Japan’s Red Scare several times:

A series of studio labor strikes occurred in the late 1940s, disrupting production and ultimately ending only through the intervention of the U.S. military and the Japanese police. Subsequently, an industry-wide “purge” of Communist or Socialist film personnel by 1950 solidified the Japanese major studios’ anti-communist attitude, which continued and even strengthened after the U.S. Occupation ended in 1952.