Japan is a country. A country is not an idea.
We are not going to kill Islam. We can keep it at bay, and try to tame it. But we won’t kill it.
Japan was an oligarchy ruled by an emperor god, quit changing the subject.
The point was the notion that the Emperor was god and all the people were ready to fight to the death rather than surrender was certainly a pretty strong ingrained idea. They didn't have to die, because MacArthur was a wise military governor.
Michael Corleone was full of it when he ducked out of Cuba, it was American money and training that financed Castro's Revolution.
I read a very intelligent post by you on another thread, see if you can bring some of that to this discussion.