Dower did not argue that
a. the occupation had no legitimacy in the eyes of almost all japanese.
b. japanese at all levels of society quickly blamed their own militaristic leaders for having initiated a miserable, unwinnable war.
c. when world war ii ended in 1945, the united states-dominated occupation of japan had enormous moral as well as legal legitimacy in the eyes of the rest of the world.
d. japan’s repressive and militaristic society emerged from defeat and occupation to become a viable democracy that has posed no threat to its neighbors for half a century.