Postwar Japan took place in two short and long periods. Before this period, the country was dependent on US aid. But postwar Japan transformed everything related to the economy. […]
The 1946 constitution made the emperor’s authority symbolic, giving legislative power to the Diet. […]
The international tribunal declared the emperor to be innocent of war crimes. The focus was to ensure that Japan would always be a US ally and would pass on anti-communist intelligence from time to time. […]
The US had the choice to make the Shōwa emperor stand trial for war crimes. Though historically inaccurate, they portrayed him as blameless in order to secure Japan as an ally during the Cold War. […]
Shidehara Kijūrō was more motivated by trade agreements than imperialistic pursuits. This world view was not shared with the Japanese military who were trigger happy when it came to China. […]
Konoe Fumimaro strongly believed that Japan could defeat China in 1937. That one miscalculation cost Konoe his entire political career and plunged Japan deeper into a war it could never win. […]
What made Japan surrender was the fear that the Soviet attack generated. With thousands of Japanese soldiers taken by the Soviets as POW, it came just four miles short of Japan proper. […]
Japan’s 2,000-year-old civilization grew through periods of seclusion and assimilation to cultivate a society responsible for immeasurable influences on the rest of the world. Here, we’ll take a peak at how Japanese family life evolved over ten centuries. […]
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