When general douglas macarthur became commander of the occupation forces in japan after world war ii, he initiated reforms to make japan a peaceful, democratic nation. which step was not part of japan's postwar transformation? giving women the right to vote adopting a new constitution giving the emperor more political power disarming most of the military

giving the emperor more political power

Explanation:

At the end of World War II, Japan was occupied by allied forces, led by the United States with contributions from Australia, British India, the United Kingdom and New Zealand. This presence of foreign occupation was the first time that the island nation was occupied by a foreign power since its unification. The Treaty of San Francisco signed on September 8, 1951 marked the end of the Allied occupation and subsequently came into force on April 28, 1952, when Japan once again became a state, now conditionally independent.

In 1946, the Diet ratified a new Constitution of Japan that closely followed a "model copy," prepared by the authorities responsible for the occupation (and American authors), and was enacted as an amendment to the old Prussian Meiji Constitution. The new Constitution guaranteed fundamental freedoms and civil liberties, gave women the right to vote, abolished the nobility and, perhaps most importantly, made the emperor the symbol of Japan, excluding him from politics. Shintoism was abolished as an official religion and Christianity reappeared publicly for the first time in decades. On April 10, 1946, general elections were held that had a turnout of 78.52% among men and 66.97% among women and that gave Japan its modern Prime Minister, Shigeru Yoshida, of the Liberal Party.

In the general elections of 1947, the Socialist Party of Japan won and managed to form a government under the presidency of Tetsu Katayama, in a grand coalition with other parties.13 The Katayama government carried out several important economic and social reforms.

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