Yes, have you watched the documentary "Princes of the Yen"? In this film, Professor Richard Werner shows how the Americans actually kept the Japanese economy under a war footing after WWII by having the Ministry of Finance and the BoJ centrally plan credit and industrial policy and how it worked really well until the Americans decided that had to change sometime back around the late 1980s. It's amazing how these Trilateralist experiment and play around with the peoples' well being. Here is a link to the documentary: