Editing Purge (section)

===Japan after WWII===
The [[Red Purge]] was an [[anticommunist]] movement in [[Occupation of Japan|occupied Japan]] from the late 1940s to the early 1950s.<ref>{{harvnb|Kumano|2010|p=513}}: "The notorious "Red Purge" was instituted nationwide in the final phase of the occupation, from July 1947 to April 1951, and proved to be a critical test for the survival of academic freedom."</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Dower|Tetsuo|2007|p=3}}: "The Red Purge was a series of arbitrary layoffs by government agencies and corporations aimed at heavy-handedly eliminating from the workplace those workers who had been unilaterally branded 'Red'. [...] The purge occurred during the US occupation of Japan from 1949 to 1951."</ref><ref name="Kingston1">{{harvnb|Kingston|2011|p=13}}: "From 1947, the Japanese government, supported by MacArthur, unleashed a Red Purge that targeted those Japanese considered to have left-wing views."</ref> Carried out by the [[Japanese government]] and private corporations with the aid and encouragement of the [[Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers]] (SCAP), the Red Purge resulted in tens of thousands of alleged members, supporters, or sympathizers of left-wing groups, especially those said to be affiliated with the [[Japanese Communist Party]], removed from their jobs in government, the private sector, universities, and schools.{{sfn|Kapur|2018|p=10}} The Red Purge emerged from rising [[Cold War]] tensions and the [[Red Scare]] after World War II,<ref>{{harvnb|Kumano|2010|p=514}}: "Eells's anticommunist speeches echoed America's Cold War policy [...] during the ideological struggle of the Cold War."</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Kumano|2010|p=529}}: "Since Eells's address in July 1949, the dilemma over communist teachers had become a national obsession, verging in some quarters on hysteria."</ref> and was a significant element within a broader "[[Reverse Course]]" in Occupation policies.{{sfn|Kapur|2018|pp=9–10}} The Red Purge reached a peak following the outbreak of the [[Korean War]] in 1950,{{sfn|Kapur|2018|pp=9–10}} when communist China supported North Korea. It began to ease after General [[Douglas MacArthur]] was replaced as commander of the Occupation by General [[Matthew Ridgway]] in 1951, and came to a conclusion with the end of the Occupation in 1952.