Labor unions were undermined with growing regularity, their leaders harassed and assaulted, and membership declined; 20,000 civil servants and schoolteachers were dismissed; newspaper and radio
offices were the subject of police raids; universities were urged to rid themselves of leftist professors.
The breakup of the huge financial combines like Mitsui and Mitsubishi was discontinued; the emperor, it was decided, would not be tried as a war criminal; SCAP officials began to make plans for "housebreaking the unions"; and the original policy for complete demilitarization of Japan was abandoned as unrealistic.