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It’s an interesting topic. The root cause being that in Japan, the same few families who ran the country in feudal times are still in power today, i.e. politics, economy, and the shadow police force aka the yakuza.
Why were they not completely removed after Japan lost WW2? Because of an US policy called the “reverse course”.
Basically the US was so afraid of Japan becoming communist, that they left the old fascists in power who they knew would never turn communist.
The few people who got sentenced for Japan’s war crimes were not the ones who ordered them. Actually the Emperor Hirohito was, but this was kept under the rug because the US suddenly decided to play softball.