... Japan's previous constitution which had modelled that of Germany hence allowing for the rise of rightwing forces and authoritarian military in the inter-war period. 1. Unite Japan Japan's careening drive for military conquest was believed not to have been the fault of the civilian Japanese leaders but ultimately the responsibility of the Japanese Army, 'the insular and arrogant military officers, particularly the young fanatics lately off the farms and their even more fanatical extreme nationalist supporters such as the blood brotherhoods, assassination societies and the rest1'. The Japanese military, therefore, was given the bulk of the blame for Japan's expansionist policies during the 1930s that had led the nation into war. However, Japan had a traditional tendency dating as far back as the Samari era to be united as a nation under a centralised military power. For SCAP to disgrace and ultimately remove the last thread holding the nation together at ...

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