U.S. Army. The Japanese Occupation (1945-1951) On the morning of September 8, 1945, General Douglas MacArthur made his way by automobile toward the American Embassy in the heart of Tokyo.

Once devastated by a triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident, the northeastern coastline of Japan today is now a landscape transformed by reconstruction and innovation.

Japan is hosting a conference for Japanese and Ukrainian officials to discuss reconstruction of Ukraine just ahead of the two-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion, while the U.S. and other ...