One American observer described it as a city ... From the very beginning, it was clear that a primary objective of the occupation of Japan would be, as the Potsdam Declaration put it, "a ...

government-approved brothels were hurriedly opened in 1945 as American forces entered Japan en masse. "Sadly, we police had to set up sexual comfort stations for the occupation troops," the ...

My point stands: the fate of thousands of babies conceived during the occupation has been swept under the rug. American scholars, correspondents, and other Japan watchers have evidently ...

Takemae, a professor of political science at Tokyo Keizai University, offers a superbly translated study of the legacy of the largely American postwar occupation of Japan up to the present day.

The occupation reforms extended beyond ... reforms is one lesson from Japan; not going overboard is another. American leaders skillfully kept their idealism from bleeding into arrogance.

A supplement to Edwin Martin's "The Allied Occupation of Japan," this book is a steady, cautious appraisal of American occupation policy from early 1948. The author is in the Office of Northeast Asian ...

Here’s the background: Ever since the American occupation of Japan after World War II, that country’s national security has been framed under the US umbrella. Japan’s pacifist constitution ...

By August 30, Gen. Douglas MacArthur was in Tokyo, and the American occupation of Japan had begun. On the morning of Sunday, Sept. 2, 1945, a small delegation of Japanese officials boarded the massive ...

The Allied occupation of Japan is remembered as the "good occupation." An American-led coalition successfully turned a militaristic enemy into a stable and democratic ally. Of course, the story ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and his family have prayed for all the war dead in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II ...