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Post-World War II Japan
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- 1945-1949
- By Ryann Connell, Mainichi [22 January
2001]. The nation's wholesale clearance of traditional
morality in an effort to please the Supreme Commander of
the Allied Powers, the transformation from bitter enemy to
fawning ally. SCAP is the name given to both the
organizational body charged with carrying out the
occupation and Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the
demigod
who headed it. - MacArthur feared Japan ‘war via trade’
- The Japan Times, 11 August 2002. MacArthur
worried that the nation would wage a
new economic aggression
by flooding other Asian markets with cheap products. To avoid this, MacArthur emphasized that General Headquarters needed to help organize labor unions in Japan to increase wages and prices of exports. - Vague Constitution needs clarification
- Mainichi Shimbun, Wednesday 3 May 2000. A
former U.S. Navy ensign involved in the drafting of
Japan's Constitution counters the idea that it nees
revision simply because the occupation-era General
Headquarters (GHQ) forced it on Japan. He provided insight
into the progress behind the birth of the idea of a
symbolic Emperor,
and other events occurring 54 years ago. - 1950-1954
- By Ryann Connell, Mainichi, 21 January 2001. Japan recovered its sovereignty from the Allied Occupation on April 28, 1952, making peace with 47 countries. But where the Americans started the Occupation purging people it deemed responsible for carrying out the nation's war effort, most of the militarists were back in power, and with the onset of the Cold War, the Americans purged the leftists who had been widely hailed as heroes at the end of the war.
- Seeking Japanese women's magazines, 1950s
- H-Asia list, cross posted from H-Japan, May 1998. Seeks names and respositories of women's popular magazines from the 1950s. The weekly women's magazines that we now associate with Japanese mass culture, advertising etc. did not get underway until the end of the 1950s.
- Beyond the ‘1940 system’
- Mainichi Shimbun Wednesday 16 August 2000. Our perceptions of the post World War II system have changed as we have to deal with problems associated with the break down of the postwar system—the stagnant economy, declining academic standards among schoolchildren, rising rates of juvenile delinquency and the destruction of the environment.
- Former PM bluffed on Japanese nukes
- Mainichi Shimbun, Friday 6 August 1999. Former Prime Minister Eisaku Sato secured nuclear protection for Japan from the United States in 1965 by bluffing about Tokyo's readiness to develop its own nuclear weapons.
- Human perception lagging information age
- By Takeshi Yoro, Anatomist, Mainichi Shimbun, Friday 26 November 1999. What is reason for the radical transformation of Japan since the World War? I doubt we knew where we were headed when we launched our modernization drive; we simply found ourselves in a radically transfigured world before we really knew what we were getting ourselves into. Basic was urbanization and its concomittant, informatizaiton.