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Japan and the United States have held formal international relations since the mid-19th century. The first encounter between the two countries to be recorded in official documents occurred in 1791 when the Lady Washington became the first American ship to visit Japan in an unsuccessful attempt to sell sea otter pelts.
Because World War II was a global war, diplomatic historians start to focus on Japanese–American relations to understand why Japan had attacked the United States in 1941. This in turn led diplomatic historians to start to abandon the previous Euro-centric approach in favor of a more global approach. [189]
Japan's aid to the ASEAN countries totaled US$1.9 billion in Japanese fiscal year (FY) 1988 versus about US$333 million for the United States during U.S. FY 1988. [173] As of the late 1980s, Japan was the number one foreign investor in the ASEAN countries, with cumulative investment as of March 1989 of about US$14.5 billion, more than twice ...
The Western World and Japan, a Study in the Interaction of European and Asiatic Cultures. (1974) online; Saveliev, Igor R., et al. "Joining the World Powers: Japan in the Times of Building Alliances, 1897–1910." Japan Forum 28#3 (2016). Schroeder, Paul W. The Axis Alliance and Japanese-American Relations, 1941 (Cornell University Press, 1961 ...
Japan intervened in the currency market on Thursday for the first time since 1998 to shore up the battered yen, in the wake of the central bank's decision to maintain ultra-low interest rates that ...
The United States officially entered World War II against Germany, Japan, and Italy in December 1941, following the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. This time the U.S. was a full-fledged member of the Allies of World War II , not just an "associate" as in the first war.
Historical Dictionary of United States-Japan Relations (2007) Excerpt and text search; Morris, Richard B. ed. Encyclopedia of American History (1976) online; Paterson, Thomas, et al. American Foreign Relations: A History (7th ed. 2 vol. 2009), university textbook; Plummer, Brenda Gayle. “The Changing Face of Diplomatic History: A Literature ...
A timeline of some key events: 1945-1948 — Japan’s colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula ends with Tokyo’s World War II defeat in 1945 but the peninsula is eventually divided into a Soviet ...