How did Japan change after WW2?

Question

if you have any sources that would be great =]

Answer 1

Well, the big one is, they quit believing in a God Emperor.
also, they switch to a consumer based economy, instead of trying to conquer resources.

Answer 2

They continued the modernization which had started during the Meiji Era in the 1800s. Women got the right to vote and entered the work force in record numbers. Western clothes and popular music were adopted with a frenzy. Free multi-party elections to select a parliament came into being, although one party (the Liberal-Democrats) was the majority party for most of the years leading up to the end of the Twentieth Century, with the exception of the "Socialist Spring" of 1947 when that party was the majority for a few months.
Modernization also expanded in industrial sectors as well, with Japan creating one of the most efficient passenger rail networks on the planet, along with creation of the high-speed Shinkansen lines, which became better known by the slang term of "bullet train".
In less than twenty years after the war, Japan went from a place in which most of major cities lay in rubble to one which hosted a Summer Olympics in 1964.

Answer 3

They modernized. Their emperor became a symbol, not a leader. They became more open to the west.

Answer 4

Parts of the Island Glowed in the dark for a while.

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