Why was the US military occupation of Japan and Germany peaceful compared to Iraq and Afghanistan?

Why was the US military occupation of Japan and Germany peaceful compared to Iraq and Afghanistan?
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If you’re just going off pictures…....There are many pictures out there of soldiers having a good time with the locals of the cities they inhabited while in the Middle East. Conversely, there are also pictures of horrors from both wars.
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