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Since the end of the Occupation, the United States has continuously pressured Japan to revise its American-imposed constitution to remove Article 9 and fully remilitarize. As a result, in 1954 the National Police Reserve was reorganized into the Japan Self-Defense Forces , a de facto military force, with U.S. assistance.
On 28 August, the occupation of Japan led by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers began. The surrender ceremony was held on 2 September, aboard the United States Navy battleship USS Missouri, at which officials from the Japanese government signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, ending the hostilities.
American occupation of Japan ended after the signing of the Treaty of San Francisco and Security Treaty between United States of America and the State of Japan, which became effective on 28 April 1952. It restored the sovereignty of Japan and established America-Japan alliance. 1954: 1 July
This meant that the U.S.-led Occupation could no longer directly dictate policy to Japanese leaders. However, as a pre-condition of ending the Occupation, the United States required the Japanese government to agree to the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, which allowed the United States to continue to maintain military forces on Japanese soil. [7]
The Dai-Ichi Seimei Building which served as SCAP headquarters, c. 1950. The Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (Japanese: 連合国軍最高司令官, romanized: Rengōkokugun saikōshireikan), or SCAP, was the title held by General Douglas MacArthur during the United States-led Allied occupation of Japan following World War II.
Unable to protect the Emperor, the Japanese government gave up. The war finally ended on September 1, 1945, when Japan surrendered following the American bombings. The official Instrument of Surrender was signed on September 2, and the United States subsequently occupied Japan in its entirety, while Japan lost all its conquests.
The Security Treaty between the United States and Japan (日本国とアメリカ合衆国との間の安全保障条約, Nippon-koku to Amerika Gasshūkoku to no aida no anzen hoshō jōyaku) was a treaty signed on 8 September 1951 in San Francisco, California by representatives of the United States and Japan, in conjunction with the Treaty of San Francisco that ended World War II in Asia.
February 12: Negotiations begin between the United States and Japan. [24] July 26: President Franklin D. Roosevelt freezes all Japanese assets in the United States. [25] November 26: The Hull note—a final proposal from the United States that includes demands for Japan to withdraw from China—is delivered to the Empire of Japan.