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Japan is home to more than 50,000 U.S. troops, but the commander for the U.S. Forces Japan headquartered in Yokota in the western suburbs of Tok US-Japan security talks focus on bolstering ...
The U.S. and Japan announced a major new military command structure Sunday that aims to counter Chinese influence in the Indo-Pacific region. U.S. Forces Japan will work more closely with Japanese ...
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan is considering offering support for a $44 billion gas pipeline in Alaska as it seeks to court U.S. President Donald Trump and forestall potential trade friction, according ...
January 19, 1960: The U.S.–Japan Status of Forces Agreement and the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan are signed in Washington, D.C. June 17, 1971: The Okinawa Reversion Agreement, which returns administrative control of Okinawa to Japan, is signed simultaneously in Tokyo and Washington D.C.
The United States bought Alaska in 1867 from Russia in the Alaska Purchase, but the boundary terms were ambiguous. In 1871, British Columbia united with the new Dominion of Canada . The Canadian government requested a survey of the boundary, but the United States rejected it as too costly; the border area was very remote and sparsely settled ...
US Forces Japan (USFJ), whose headquarters is Yokota Air Base, consists of approximately 54,000 military personnel stationed in Japan under a 1960 mutual cooperation and security treaty.
More than 2,500 Japanese soldiers died in combat or by suicide, and American forces lost about 550 soldiers. Of the 41 residents interned on Japan’s Hokkaido Island, 22 died from malnutrition, starvation, tuberculosis or other ailments over the next two-plus years, including Pagano’s great-grandfather, Mike Hodikoff, the last chief.
The Treaty of Amity and Commerce between Japan and the United States (日米修好通商条約, Nichibei Shūkō Tsūshō Jōyaku), also called the Harris Treaty was a treaty signed between the United States and Tokugawa Shogunate, which opened the ports of Kanagawa and four other Japanese cities to trade and granted extraterritoriality to ...