some of the most documents that laid out the goals of the occupation, like the potsdam declaration, declared that the militarists had misled the japanese people. they were those to blame. during the first few years of the occupation, the occupational authorities demobilized and dismantled japan's imperial military. they order the japanese government, be governed through the japanese government, they order the japanese government to undertake large-scale purges to remove militarists, and military leaders and officers from public life. militaristic and nationalistic symbols were censored and banned. an international tribunal tried military leaders, sentencing some of them to death. a constitution was drafted by the occupational authorities and it banned offensive military power. article nine declare that air, land and sea forces would never be maintained. the entire occupation was premised on the idea that building a democratic japan required the total eschewal of military power. many japanese embraced this idea, this new model of japanese pacifism. so the decision to create an npr seemed like