Emperor Trump is in Japan to inspect the American military bases and to pat the American soldiers on the back. He is also going to demand Japan to pay more for the military occupation by American forces...to keep Japan under American control. Incidentally, American soldiers in Japan do not have to clear Japanese immigration. They fly in and out or sail in and out through American air and naval bases that are de facto American territories, not Japanese territories.
The continuing military occupation of Japan by American forces, with more than 100 bases and more than 50,000 American soldiers, is about the best contribution of the Americans to peace in Asia. Following the dropping of two atomic bombs in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, saving a lot of American soldier's lives and the lives of many Koreans and Chinese, the Americans put a lid over the real Yellow Peril threat coming from the wild Japanese military ambition to conquer and rule Asia first, and then the whole world.
Without the two atomic bombs, it is unlikely that the Japanese would surrender so easily and without conditions. The Japanese were still occupying Korea as a colony and the colonisation of China was a work in progress. With 800,000 Japanese soldiers in China and Korea, the arrogant and overconfident Imperial Japanese generals would want to continue their military campaigns in China and Korea. The view that Japan was already thinking of surrendering before the dropping of the atomic bombs might not be the thinking and position of the Japanese Imperial Army.
With 800,000 soldiers, the Japanese could easily continue to occupy Korea and at least consolidate their position in Manchuria. That would make their positions easier to hold against the Chinese forces. In the case of Korea, it was a defeated country and ruling over the Koreans would not be a big problem for the Japanese.
Though the situation today has changed with the Americans using the bases in Japan and South Korea as a threat and launching pad to contain and to invade China if necessary, the main thrust of the American military presence in Japan is to put a leash on the warlike Japanese, to keep them in check and from launching another mischievous adventure of conquest. Even then, the Japanese remilitarisation has made Japan the biggest military power in Asia second only to China.
The American forces in Japan retain the absolute power and control over all Japanese forces. And the Americans are fully aware of what the Japanese military are doing and can kill whatever moves the Japanese may want to make. The supreme military commander of Japan is a position held by the Americans, not the Japanese.
So far, the American control over the warlike Japanese military ambition has held sway for the last 80 years. How long would the Americans be able to keep the leash on Japan is an unknown. With the changes in geopolitical powers and rise of China, the situation is now more complicated, and the Americans would love to use the Japanese as the point man against China in a kinetic war.
Japan is also marking time, tolerating the American military control and presence against Japanese pride as a former Empire, and if possible, use the Americans against China. Japanese was at the verge of conquering Asia and ruling Asia and does not need to be protected by the Americans. Everyone understood that the American narrative of protecting Japan is as fake as it could be. The only threat against the Japanese is the Americans. The Americans would want to keep Japan as an American colony forever with independence in name only. Other than keeping Japan under check, there is a new mission, to check China as well.
