| A | B |
| Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers | General Douglas MacArthur |
| U.S. Army Medical Corps doctor | Crawford Sams |
| Japanese people thought he was divine | Emperor Hirohito |
| Reformed Japanese education system | Theodore Geisel |
| Eleven Japanese families who controlled 75% of country's industry | Zaibatsu |
| Farmers | Peasants |
| Japan held this position until 2010 | World's second largest economy |
| Increase in Japanese GDP between 1951 and 1980 | 7600% |
| Cars, machinery, and consumer electronics | Japanese exports |
| By 1998, Japanese banks held $615 billion in this | Bad debt |
| It hit a high of 40,000 in late 1989 | Nikkei |
| They held power for fifty years in Japan | Liberal Democratic Party |
| The number of U.S. servicemen still stationed in Japan | 25,000 |
| The percentage of Japanese who will be 60 or older by 2050 | 41.7% |