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Throughout the entire year - Celebration of year 2600 in Japanese imperial year; January 15 – A large fire destroys much of Shizuoka city center.; January 29 – According to Japanese government official confirmed report, a three-passenger locomotive commuter train derail and caught fire nearby Ajikawaguchi Station, Osaka, resulting to 189 person (181 were instantly, 8 were hospital) were ...
This changed the global world order. Japan became the main Asian power. 1910: 22 August: Japan–Korea Treaty completes the annexation of the Korean Empire. December: Japanese Antarctic Expedition starts. 1912: 30 July: Emperor Meiji died of kidney failure and ulcerative colitis at the age of 59.
The 1950s were largely marked by Japan re-establishing relations to numerous nations and redefining its international role, e.g., by joining the United Nations in 1956. One such total redefinition were Japan's relations to its former World War II-ally Germany , which were put on a new basis in 1955 focused on trade.
America and the Japanese miracle: the Cold War context of Japan's postwar economic revival, 1950-1960. The Luther Hartwell Hodges series on business, society, and the state. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-2528-0. Hane, Mikiso (1996). Eastern phoenix: Japan since 1945. Boulder, Colo: Westview Press.
Popular anger at the continuing presence of these U.S. military bases in Japan even after the official end of the Occupation continued to grow over the course of the 1950s, leading to a nationwide anti-base movement and a number of spectacular protests, including Bloody May Day in 1952, the Sunagawa Struggle from 1955 to 1957, and the Girard ...
Japan's manufacturing sector experienced labor shortages in the early 1940s as a result of its military conscription. [74]: 34 Japan forced prisoners of war and foreign labors to work in factories, including more than one million Koreans whom it took to Japan for this purpose from 1941 to 1945.
The Allied occupation, with economic and political assistance, continued well into the 1950s. Allied forces ordered Japan to revise the Meiji Constitution and enforce the Constitution of Japan, then rename the Empire of Japan as Japan on 3 May 1947. [30] Japan adopted a parliamentary-based political system, while the Emperor changed to symbolic ...
July 26 - Allies issue Potsdam Declaration; Japan refuses to agree to its terms. August 6 - Atomic bombing of Hiroshima. August 8 - Soviet Union declares war on Japan. August 9 - Atomic bombing of Nagasaki. [2] August 15 - Last Allied bombing of Japan takes place in Odawara and Tsuchizaki.