Japan was basically a whole ass empire itself getting colonized, and its imperial core while still being subjugated and extracted from in a colonial way also received extra privileges and continued to be a sort of lesser core for the new American imperial holdings in Asia and the Pacific.
Like the American economic strategy for how to exploit all of those countries was a model (which was explicitly racist, because of course it was) drawn up by an Imperial Japanese economist and the State Department internally was explicitly describing their strategy as wanting to rebuild and restore Imperial Japan as a controlled client state of the US. But then the economic model imposed on Japan itself was also one of colonial extraction as it was industrialized to produce commodities for Americans to consume and harsher working conditions were imposed on Japanese workers on the suggestion of American businessmen.
Japan was basically a whole ass empire itself getting colonized, and its imperial core while still being subjugated and extracted from in a colonial way also received extra privileges and continued to be a sort of lesser core for the new American imperial holdings in Asia and the Pacific.
Like the American economic strategy for how to exploit all of those countries was a model (which was explicitly racist, because of course it was) drawn up by an Imperial Japanese economist and the State Department internally was explicitly describing their strategy as wanting to rebuild and restore Imperial Japan as a controlled client state of the US. But then the economic model imposed on Japan itself was also one of colonial extraction as it was industrialized to produce commodities for Americans to consume and harsher working conditions were imposed on Japanese workers on the suggestion of American businessmen.