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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 ]
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 ...
See France–Japan relations. The history of Franco–Japanese relations (日仏関係, Nichi-Futsu kankei) goes back to the early 17th century, when a Japanese samurai and ambassador on his way to Rome landed for a few days in Southern France, creating a sensation. France and Japan have enjoyed a very robust and progressive relationship ...
Argentina was integrated into the British international economy in the late 19th century; there was minimal trade with the United States. When the United States began promoting the Pan American Union, some Argentines were suspicious that it was indeed a device to lure the country into the U.S. economic orbit, but most businessmen responded favorably and bilateral trade grew briskly.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders after capturing San Juan Hill during the Spanish–American War. A map of Middle America showing the places affected by Theodore Roosevelt's Big stick policy. U.S. M4 Sherman tank clearing an Imperial Japanese bunker on Iwo Jima during the Second World War. The "Grand Area" as per the CFR planners ...
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 ...
The U.S.-Japan alliance was forced on Japan as a condition of ending the U.S.-led military occupation of Japan (1945–1952). [3] The original U.S.-Japan Security Treaty was signed on September 8, 1951, in tandem with the signing of the San Francisco Peace Treaty ending World War II in Asia, and took effect in conjunction with the official end of the occupation on April 28, 1952.