YOKOHAMA, Japan — Restoration of a city landmark here last year uncovered images of the post-World War II occupation by ... U.S. military seized the building after the end of World War II ...

Up to last week the U.S. Government had every reason to believe that its initial one-power occupation of Japan ... of power that would hold Japan in check. After Potsdam, Harry Truman and Jimmy ...

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 U.S. umbrella. Japan’s pacifist constitution ...

2, 1945. The general led the occupation of Japan until 1951, with Emperor Hirohito remaining on his throne as a symbolic gesture.

Japan’s aviation industry was completely destroyed by the U.S. occupation forces after WW2 so that the former enemy would never be a threat to the US hegemony. Eighty years after the war, Japan still ...

That ship sank along with three other IJN carriers in June 1942 during the Battle of Midway, after being struck by dive bombers from the USS Yorktown. It is not clear if Japan would rely on this ...

Five Hawaiian men who served in a unit of Japanese-language linguists during World War II were recognized with posthumous Purple Heart medals nearly 80 years after their plane crashed in the final ...

Rockefeller (1839-1937). In the 1950s, just after the end of the American occupation of Japan, Rockefeller III led the postwar renaissance of New York’s Japan Society as a nexus for cultural ...

Even Churchill, one of the heroes of the eventual Allied victory in World War II, has been accused of gross strategic miscalculations in regards to Japan’s aggression. The cruelty of the Japanese ...