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Major Ted William Lawson (March 7, 1917 – January 19, 1992) was an American officer in the United States Army Air Forces, who is known as the author of Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, a memoir of his participation in the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in 1942. The book was subsequently adapted into the 1944 film of the same name starring Spencer Tracy ...
The Ogasawara Islands were returned from American occupation to Japanese sovereignty. Japanese citizens were allowed to return. 1969: 18 January: Japanese student protests against the Vietnam War and American use of bases on Japanese soil culminated in a short-lived takeover of University of Tokyo. 1970: 11 February
A Modern History of Japan. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-511060-9. Kapur, Nick (2018). Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674984424. Schrijvers, Peter (2002). The GI war against Japan : American soldiers in Asia and the Pacific during World War II ...
The history of Tokyo, Japan's capital prefecture and largest city, ... adult comic books written mostly in ... The battle killed 18,500 Japanese and 6,800 Americans ...
Mission to Tokyo: The American Airmen Who Took the War to the Heart of Japan. Minneapolis: MBI Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-7603-4122-3. Dower, John W. (1986). War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-14605-8. Downes, Alexander B. (2008). Targeting Civilians in War. Ithaca, New York: Cornell ...
Japan and the United States have held formal international relations since the mid-19th century. The first encounter between the two countries to be recorded in official documents occurred in 1791 when the Lady Washington became the first American ship to visit Japan in an unsuccessful attempt to sell sea otter pelts.
The evacuation of 379 people on Japan Airlines flight 516 is no casual miracle, but the result of years of work to hone safety procedures and save lives, experts say.
President Roosevelt, wearing a black armband, signs the Declaration of War on Japan on December 8, 1941. On December 8, 1941, at 12:30 PM ET the United States Congress declared war, (Pub. L. 77–328, 55 Stat. 795) on the Empire of Japan in response to its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and subsequent declaration of war the prior day.