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The people running the government itself didn't change much. There was a power struggle between the Imperial Army and Imperial Navy which started from the Meiji era, and the emperor practically don't have the power to restrain the two groups. They practically done whatever they please in the name of the emperor, and excecuted government officials that opposed their ideas. (The reason why the prime minister of Japan kept on changing during WW2 was because no one really wanted to be on that seat, because one wrong move that defies the Army or Navy usually ends up with an assassin knocking at your door.)

After the war, the Americans took care of the Army and Navy's power struggle for Japan and the politicains who were surpressed by the Army and Navy came back and took charge with the permission of the US. It's practically a new set of rules being ran by an old group of people. The force fed democracy from the US didn't really change the society as a whole, and a lot of old ideas lived on in some other form all the way till today. You'll see what I mean if you look closely at the current politics and businesses in Japan.

Compared with Germany, Japan was the lucky one.