Operation Blacklist: The Allied Occupation Of Japan

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The Allied occupation of Japan at the end of World War II which was led by General Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, with support from the British Commonwealth. Unlike in the profession of Germany, the Soviet Union was allowed little to no influence over Japan. This foreign attendance marked the only time in Japan's history that it had been occupied by a distant power. It changed the country into a parliamentary democracy that recalled "New Deal" urgencies of the 1930s politics by Roosevelt. The job, codenamed Operation Blacklist, which had ended by the San Francisco Peace Treaty, signed on September 8, 1951, and definite from April 28, 1952, after which Japan's power – with the exception, until 1972, of the Ryukyu

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