¿Esto suena natural? Initially, he had looked relatively warmly at former Communist Party members in Japan. He knew that even after they had been imprisoned as political prisoners, they continued to oppose the war in Japan and believed that Japan had to withdraw all the military force from mainland China and other East Asia areas. After the war, he ordered their release from prison. He believed that their principles were consistent with his policies in postwar Japan. In any case, his priority in administrating the postwar Japan was to eradicate Japanese militarism, not communism, by keeping Japan under the protection of the United States so that it would never again become a military power.