December 1 / The LDP Postwar Order and its Discontents / Protest art in 1950 Japan

• occupation of Okinawa

Occupation Agenda: "Demilitarize and democratize"
- in theory, the occupation of japan was a joint endeavor of the allied powers in reality, all decisions made by SCAP/US government 
- Japan's armed forces 
1946 women election 女性選挙権
landlords 

- cold war 
USSR 
- US does not to acknowledge 
not want to have them 
ma

the rise of communism 

1949 - war going on in china between nationalist and 

occupation period 
2 different eras 

社会主義政府 1946-1947
- allegedly 
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"The U.S. and the "Reverse Course" (逆コース) 
for japan 

• starting roughly 1947

• global factors including beginning of the cold war ,chinese communist revolution and situation in korean peninsula 

• domestic factors 

• general strike : everybody who is a worker 

• resemblance to the marshal plan, the United States  stimulus plan to promote European economic recovery and capitalist development 

• In japan: loss of right for public sector workers to strike (planned general strike shut down by SCAP, loss of some ideological freedoms

• 黒澤明 1950 

• 新東宝　・　

• physical location 

• for the us 

workers should strike 

USSR 

Korean's War and Japan's Economic History 
- US Secretary of State Dean Acheson worked to build permanent American presence in Northeast Asia in Japan and Korea
At the end of WWII, US and USSR had agreed to temporarily divide Korean peninsula at 38th parallel - as cold war began, neither side would budge - US supported 
- Japan's economic benefits from wartime economy - fulfilling orders from US militray to Japanese industries, war goods accounted for 60 percent 
of all japanese exports from 1951-1953 but also impact of US bases, japanese minesweepers sent to korea

-historian 

Historiography 

sending japanese people to fight for 

Anti-War Movements in Occupied Japan 
September 1951 arrest of Nishida Kiyoshi for distributing anti-war leaflets outside US military base in Otsu, turned over to SCAP 
- 在日韓国人　
韓国が日本に併合されていたから？

1951 西田清　anti-war 
U.S. military base
- guilty 
- occupation forces
- with hard labor 

anti-war 
pro-communist 

anti-war movements 
usa will blame ussr 
US army would have the japanese soldiers 

Anti-War movements in occupied japan

Bloody 

立川air disaster of 1961 was the crash of a US Air Force plane that killed 129 people , at that time one of the deadliest air disasters ever
0base was heavily during the korean war
protests against the expansion of the tachikawa airfield began in the 1950s

police officers sought protesters

in October 1956, 2,000 police officers, trying to evict the farmers, fought wiith 6,000 protesters, resulting in 1000 people injured 

三里塚闘争 - Wikipedia

New Political Order in Postwar Japan
- Fall of the Yoshida Shigeru government in autumn 1954, after numerous corruption scandals and dissatisfaction with the San Francisco and Security treaties
- in the elections that  followed, Japan Democratic Party (conservative) merged with Japan Liberal Party, creating the LDP
- Two wings of the socialist party also merged, 

Kishi Nobusuke and the LDP
- 安倍晋三のお爺さん→岸信介
- 岸信介
- economic manager of Manchukuo, pro- "total war" economy, known as the "devil of Showa"
-Was a minister in the wartime cabinets of Konoe and Tojo
-Charged as Class A war criminal, held in Sugamo prison 巣鴨刑務所until 1948
- Fully "rehabilitated" in 1952
- Attacked the leadership of Yoshida Shigeru as being too soft toward American policies
- Became Prime minister in 1957, japan joined UN Security Council,国連安全保障理事会 promoted the Asian Development Fund
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