I've heard it quoted that MAcarthur said "the japanese should be
treated like they're 12 year old".

This may be a paraphrase of his speech, in which compared to the
"modern germany" japan was a "12 year old boy".

However, it is clear that Macarthur somehow though of japanese as
being immature, and probably not solely to them not being modern or
even and enemy because i do not believe he made similar remarks about
Koreans or Chinese.  Or his duties as an administrator, for I do not
believe he made similar remarks about the people of the Phillipines.



I just want to know your opinions on why you think this, both japanese
and otherwise.