when the npr is created, japan's prime minister shigeru yoshida was asking for these capabilities for years to read he sent letters to macarthur. he was very anti-communist. he sent these letters to macarthur. he said you guys have centralized all of the police in the early occupation but that doesn't cut it anymore against communism. they believed it was a threat. my historicalin distance. if they believed it was a threat, i have to take that seriously. in terms of the bloody mayday right and questions about the japanese communist party, the japanese communist party goes through a lot of phases. this is between 1945 and 1955. the japanese left goes through a lot of phases. after the war, the japanese communist party says they will participate in politics. they talk about how they will not -- they are not getting done what they want to get done through politics. they said they will do more demonstrations and extralegal things. withis in the dialectic the u.s. occupation authorities increasingly cracking down on things like labor strikes and stuff like that. is thelate 1940's, there an