This year we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the postwar period of Japan. After Japan lost the war, the shape of its postwar regime was prepared and arranged mostly by the victor, the United States, which occupied Japan. The ideal of freedom and democracy served as the core principles during the Occupation.
The Japanese Constitution was also established along the lines of this ideal, which was a noble cause for the Americans. During the war, they answered the question of "Why we fight?" by playing the role of the world's "police" against fascist and totalitarian evils.
The ideal also accorded with postwar America's general strategy as the hegemonic power leading all liberal countries, or the West.