Author: Payton Van Den Heuvel

Japan, 1951 On September 8th, 1951, representatives from Japan and the United States signed the Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan in San Francisco, California. In five articles, the Treaty dictated the future of American involvement in and

Japan, 1971 After World War II, Japan’s economy grew at an unprecedented rate, becoming the world’s second-largest economy by the end of the Cold War. A long history of well-informed decisions by the Japanese and United States drove this change.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru signs the San Francisco Peace Treaty on September 8th, 1951   On September 8th, 1951, representatives from Japan and the United States signed the Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan in San Francisco,