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Pretty much. With the Nazis they had to make a show of doing something with their leaders and the most notorious officials and soldiers, at least the ones the US deemed "not useful enough" to reappropriate for themselves, and then with West Germany they had to at least try to hide that they were just installing Nazis back into power. With Japan they didn't need any more PR than the subjugation of the country and the subordination of its own empire to the American empire, so they actively worked to rebuild it as their subordinate.
There are declassified State Department documents that say as much, how important it is to just completely rebuild Imperial Japan but underneath US control. I remember those being posted on the old sub and I wish I'd save them as a reference.