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 ...

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 ...

(A debate is currently raging over whether that article, which was inserted during the American occupation of Japan after World War II and prohibits the use of force, should remain in Japan's ...

Park Chung-hee was nearly assassinated while delivering a speech on stage in 1974, on the August 15th anniversary of Japan’s surrender ... and don’t need American pundits to scream at them ...

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 ...

Hugh Borton, "American Presurrender Planning for Postwar ... and the United Kingdom—was established to oversee Japan’s occupation. MacArthur and his staff felt the need to move quickly ...

An explosion rocked a Japanese military facility located within the US-run Kadena Air Base in Okinawa on June 9, according to ...

The return wasn’t just political; it reshaped how American engineers operated ... cooperation with the Government of Japan and away from the postwar occupation model. The new district ...

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 ...