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 ...

Trump questioned why the US must defend Japan while Japan has no such duty. But history shows the US itself designed the post ...

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 ...

Japan will officially describe the Northern Territories as under the “illegal occupation” of Russia, reviving an expression that was dropped after 2003. The Foreign Ministry’s draft for the ...