To counter a perceived communist threat from the Soviet Union, the US quickly set to work reconstructing the economy by transforming Japan's institutions and devising a new pacifist constitution.
Japan's institutions and constitution desperately needed to be reconstructed.
mnli hypothesis: Japan's institutions and constitution desperately needed to be reconstructed. premise: To counter a perceived communist threat from the Soviet Union, the US quickly set to work reconstructing the economy by transforming Japan's institutions and devising a new pacifist constitution.