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Japan–United States relations

  • G20The year was 1997 when the first tremor of a global financial crisis struck Mexico. The peso collapsed, sending shockwaves through emerging markets across…
  • Surrender of JapanBy July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy had ceased to be an effective fighting force. Only six aircraft carriers, four cruisers, and one battleship remained…
  • Washington Naval TreatyIn November 1918, the British Royal Navy interned the defeated German High Seas Fleet. The Allied powers held sharply differing views on what to do with…
  • Export Control ActPresident Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a presidential proclamation in 1940 that forbade the export of aircraft parts, chemicals, and minerals without a…
  • USS Panay incidentThe Yangtze River flowed past Nanjing in the early weeks of December 1937, carrying a heavy burden of war. Japanese forces had invaded China during the…
  • G8A 1975 summit hosted by France brought together representatives of six governments: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
  • Victory over Japan DayThe phrase Victory over Japan Day refers to three different calendar moments in 1945. August 15 marks the day Emperor Hirohito broadcast his surrender…
  • G7On the 25th of March 1973, United States secretary of the treasury George Shultz convened an informal gathering in a library on the ground floor of the White…
  • International Space StationThe first module of the International Space Station, named Zarya, lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome on the 20th of November 1998 atop a Proton rocket.
  • Treaty of San FranciscoForty-nine nations gathered inside the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco on the 8th of September 1951. The room held delegates from Argentina to…
  • Japanese naval codesIn 1923, American agents seized a Japanese naval attaché's luggage in Washington D.C. They removed a set of codebooks bound in red covers from his briefcase.
  • Japan–United States relationsOn the 8th of July 1853, four black-hulled steam frigates of the United States Navy anchored in Uraga Harbor near Edo. Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry…