The Japanese Occupation (1945-1951 ... presence in the constitution has had an enormous impact on Japan's postwar history. After marathon negotiations in early March, Japanese officials accepted ...

VJ Day celebrations 75 years ago A WW2 hero and ... under the Japanese occupation, which began in 1910 and ended in 1945. Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine is home to the spirits of Japan's 2.5 million ...

Even after the occupation came to an end ... the Empire of Japan announced its surrender, leading to the end of World War II. The US forces quickly moved in to launch Operation Blacklist, a ...

Japan will officially describe the Northern Territories as under the “illegal occupation” of Russia ... Soviet Union in the closing days of World War II. Japan avoided using such expressions ...

Irving--The experiences of the nearly 45,000 Japanese women who immigrated to the United States as wives of American military servicemembers ...

From December 1941, Japan, as part of its plan to build an East Asian empire and secure oil supplies essential for war in the Pacific, swiftly took control of Southeast Asia. Japanese occupation had a ...