Possibly. But there was a tremendous sense of humiliation, regret, and anger on the part of the ordinary public at the military in Japan following the conclusion of the Pacific War. People were well aware that their military leaders had brought the country to ruin.

Such was the revulsion against the military at the war's end in Japan that the new civilian administration attempted to fairly much legislate the armed forces out of existence. They learned something from WWII. The USA (aside from the South in the Civil War) has never yet experienced a national lesson on that scale, so Americans have been able to remain a bit naive in that respect. They simply don't imagine that they can lose or that the chickens can finally come home to roost.