The Occupation has provided the Japanese people their first real opportunity to take charge of their own destiny and to build for themselves a peaceful and constructive future.

Emperor Hirohito and General MacArthur, at their first meeting, at the U.S. Embassy, Tokyo, 27 September, 1945. U.S. Army. The Japanese Occupation (1945-1951) On the morning of September 8, 1945 ...

Although the occupation of Japan formally ended in April 1952, Okinawa remained a US colony until the early 1970s, when sovereignty was returned to Japan. The sprawling, grotesque complex of US ...

The occupation lasted from 1945 to 1952, which means that such children are now in their early to late sixties. Up to 40,000 GIs were based in Japan at any one time, about one-seventh of them blacks.

Researchers say rare remnants of Japanese shrine has been hiding in plain sight in popular Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens Researchers in Hong Kong have unearthed what they have said ...

Emperor Hirohito and General MacArthur, at their first meeting, at the U.S. Embassy, Tokyo, 27 September, 1945. U.S. Army. The Japanese Occupation (1945-1951) On the morning of September 8, 1945 ...