Curated playlist
Japan–United States relations
- Surrender of JapanArmy officers staged a coup to seize Emperor Hirohito's surrender recording.
- Washington Naval TreatyAmerican codebreakers secretly read Japan's cables during the Washington Naval Treaty talks.
- Export Control ActFranklin D. Roosevelt launched the Export Control Act of 1940 by proclamation, not by Congress.
- USS Panay incidentJapanese warplanes sank the American gunboat USS Panay on the Yangtze River in 1937. The two nations were not at war.
- Victory over Japan DayA sailor grabbed a woman in Times Square and kissed her when Japan's surrender news broke.
- G7The G7 began in 1973 as four finance officials meeting in the White House library.
- International Space StationPeople have lived aboard the International Space Station without a break since 2 November 2000.
- Treaty of San FranciscoCeylon gave up its right to war reparations from Japan at the 1951 San Francisco peace conference.
- Japanese naval codesA report that "AF" was short of water helped point American forces to Midway.
- Japan–United States relationsIn 1853, Commodore Perry's black steam warships anchored near Edo and Japan could not resist.