The roots of Japan’s security arrangement with the United States can be traced back to August 1945, when Japan surrendered following the atomic bombings. The US led a seven-year occupation under ...

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An informer must have given away our location, and the Japanese patrols had come looking for us. We ducked behind ... I felt overjoyed to forget about the occupation, even just for a day.

Imposed on the Japanese in 1952 as a condition of ending the US occupation, it certainly was, initially, unequal (in favour of the US). It had no end date, and allowed the US to put down ‘domestic ...

Here is a snippet: Yesterday marked the 70th anniversary of the Occupation ... in the United States. But there is little mention in Japanese history classes of the simultaneous strike on the Malayan ...

Along with fulminating against the United States, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi reasserted China’s South China Sea claims, ...

When Japan expanded its empire in 1910, it seized Korea. The Allies retook control of Korea in 1945, and by 1948, the peninsula had been split in two for the purposes of occupation. The 38th parallel ...

Historians often suggest that America’s super-weapon forced Hirohito to surrender in 1945. Look closer, and the truth is more complex ...

The U.S.-drafted Constitution has never been revised since it took effect in 1947 during the U.S. occupation of Japan after its World War II defeat. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s conservative ...