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 ...

as the "Reverse Course" in American occupation policy had begun to favor the old industrial and bureaucratic elites, who offered the quickest route to economic stability for Japan. By setting the ...

Introduced before World War II, the sport fell out of favor during Japan’s militaristic era, only to be revived during the American occupation. With baseball seen as a democratic ideal ...

Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward has reproduced a rare map from 1947 that shows how the postwar U.S. occupation of Japan had dominated and sprawled across the places locals walk past every day. It proved to ...

It had “proven useful” during Japan’s occupation of China, John Dower, an American historian, points out in his book about the history of the U.S.-led occupation of Japan, “Embracing ...