(9.Oktober 1994) „This story reveals the intimate role that Americans at official and private levels played in promoting structured corruption and one-party conservative democracy in post-war Japan, and that‘s new,“ said John Dower, a leading Japan scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. „We look at the L.D.P. and say it‘s corrupt and it‘s unfortunate to have a one-party democracy. But we have played a role in creating that misshapen structure.“