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"This story reveals the intimate role that Americans at official and private levels played in promoting structured corruption and one-party conservative democracy in post-war Japan, and that's new,"
said John Dower, a leading Japan scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"We look at the L.D.P. and say it's corrupt and it's unfortunate to have a one-party democracy. But
we have played a role in creating that misshapen structure."
Bits and pieces of the story are revealed in United States Government records slowly being declassified.