Japan, contemporary period

Preparation of the victory on the Allied side

American and the Alliés knew that they were going to gain the war several months before the German defeat. They thus organized several conferences, to fix the fate of the Japanese and other enemies:

Conference of Casablanca (1943)
Conference of Yalta: the the USSR is committed declaring the war with the Japanese in the three months who follow the German defeat in exchange of the Sakhalines islands and Kouriles
Conférence of Potsdam
Conférence of San Francisco

The Japanese defeat

The Japan is the only country to date (2005) to be struck by a nuclear bomb at the time of a war. It is the US president Harry Truman which decided to make use of it. The bombs have exploded on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

The August 14th 1945, the Japanese recognized their defeat.

Occupation

The years 1950

The January 15th 1960, Japan signed with the the United States a treaty of safety which came into effect the June 23rd 1960.

With the beginning of the year 1950, the commercial Balance was negative (- 407 million dollars in 1953 and -794 million dollars in 1954)

The American army carried out many orders at the Japanese companies during the Guerre of Korea. They allowed important entries of currencies.

The years 1960

The Treated nippo - South Korean of June 22nd, 1965 standardized the relations with the South Korea, in the past colonized by Japan. The Satô government thus sought to improve its relations with its neighbors, in a context marked by the rise of the tensions in Asia with American sinking with the Vietnam and the accession of China to the row of military nuclear power in 1964.

In 1968, GNP of Japan reaches 150 billion dollars and thus exceeded that of FRG.

The years 1970

The Yen was anchored since the April 25th 1949 to the dollar (a dollar = 360 yens), but the currency became floating in 1971 because of the end of the gold standard which constituted one of the Nixon shocks. The yen was appreciated then in an important way. The Nixon government was also put to support the Popular republic of China, whereas Washington and Tokyo hitherto had maintained the relations privileged with Taiwan. This policy change was felt like a shock, because Nixon had made this decision without consulting the Japanese as a preliminary. Nixon increased also the taxation of the imports of textiles coming from Japan and had threatened to reduce exports of soya towards the Archipelago.

The end of the war of Vietnam, made it possible Japan to reinforce its diplomatic relations and commercial with the Southeast Asia.

The first oil crisis caused an economic deceleration, because 73% of the energy used by Japan were in the form of oil. The oil crisis encouraged Japan has to reduce the energy consumption of the companies, to give up very greedy industries in energy and to develop diplomatic relations with the Middle East.

The control of the Îles Ryukyu, to which Okinawa belongs, was returned by the United States with the Japanese in 1972.

In 1972, continental China and Japan made a statement which put an end to the state of war. (China had not signed the Traité of San Francisco in 1952.

The Prime Minister Fukuda Takeo returned visit to several countries of Asia, in particular in Burma, the Indonesia and the Malaysia.

The August 12th 1978, the continental China and the Japan signed a friendship and peace treaty.

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See too

External bonds

http://www.lawbuzz.com/tyranny/snow_falling/snow_falling.htm: in English

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