us-japan relations

In The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth, Gar Alperovitz, a former research fellow at Harvard and King's College and a research scientist at the University of Maryland, makes a powerful case that the U.S. did not need to nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki and that...

Was this the first example of a conquering nation giving up overt control over another they conquered?

Linky.

Treason? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/6580190/Barack-Obama-criticised-for-treasonous-bow-to-Japanese-emperor.html I wouldn't call it treason at all, but that's what the extremist conservatives are calling it. On the other hand, it does look a little too...