HIST 2752H Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hideki Tojo, Post-Occupation Japan, Shigeru Yoshida

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Postwar japan and postwar memory: u. s. occupaion of japan. Set out to do two things: demilitarize, democraize. Later on they wanted to make japan a cold war ally. Universal sufrage, equality in marriage: enire legislature needed to be elected, freedom of press and human rights protected. American occupaion wasn"t brutal, as was expected by the japanese: hibakusha are people who didn"t die right away from the bomb, but sufers the efects of the radiaion. The third goal of becoming cold war ally: the shit happened in 1948 because of cold war concerns, china"s communist party was winning in the civil war. 1948 us cold war concerns shited occupaion"s goals: japan is required to re-militarize because they were the front line in the cold war in asia, pm yoshida shigeru agreed to limited and gradual military build up. The security treaty: gave the us rights to staion troops in japan.

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