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Eight decades since the end of the Second World War, the US-Japan alliance continues to evolve beyond its Cold War foundations. On September 2, 1945, on the deck of USS Missouri, Imperial Japan ...

Kitaoka Fumio, "Going through a Village (Buraku otōru)" (1947), woodcut (all photos courtesy University of Chicago Press) The period between 1945 and 1952 was an odd one in Japan’s history. The ...

Yet as the world marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the great war, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has ...