Due to cold war fears, the united states

a. established large military bases in china and singapore in the late 1960s.
b. urged the japanese navy to patrol the formosa straits.
c. acquiesced when the japanese government established an organized labor movement.
d. backed away from its policy of breaking up the zaibatsu.
e. urged japan to develop an army of twenty divisions after the outbreak of the korean war.

The righ answer is:

D. backed away from its policy of breaking up the zaibatsu.

Explanation:

Toward the end of the 1940s, two far-reaching reforms instituted by the United States as an occupying power in Japan aimed at reducing the power of the military and breaking up the largest business comglomerates, the zaibatsu. However, the Korean War (1950-1953) made the American government reverse course out of concerns about growing Communist presence in East Asia. It chose to focus on Japanese economic recovery and political rehabilitation instead.

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so basically it is not clearly and consistently imposed

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