Around the Web - HIST 499: Allied Occupation of Japan (1945 - 1952)

Digital Repositories & Websites for Researching the Allied Occupation:

A Guide to Research on the Allied Occupation of Japan
American Occupation of Japan, Voices of the Key Participants
Claremont Colleges Digital Libraries
National Archives - Catalogue Search
Search for information about the records of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS)
National Diet Library (Japan)
Reconstruction of Japan/Allied Occupation page (includes some digitized English-language documents)
United States Strategic Bombing Survey Summary Report
From July 1946
Foreign Relations of the United States
The State Department's Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series is the official historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. The series began in 1861 and is available for dates up until about 40 years ago. For security purposes, there is a moving wall on release of information. From the University of Wisconsin.
John W. Bennett photo archives, Ohio State University
Doing Photography and Social Research in the Allied Occupation of Japan, 1948-1951: A Personal and Professional Memoir

Image Repositories

Search for photographs, postcards, and more.

East Asia Images Collections - Lafayette College Libraries
Look for Gerald and Rella Warner Japan Slides. "The great majority were produced between 1947 and 1951, during the US Occupation of Japan."
John W. Bennett photo archives, Ohio State University
Doing Photography and Social Research in the Allied Occupation of Japan, 1948-1951: A Personal and Professional Memoir

Online Articles

Articles from a variety of sources, both academic and popular.

Japan's Red Purge: Lessons from a Saga of Suppression of Free Speech and Thought
By Tetsuo Hirata.
The Allied Occupation of Japan – an Australian View
by Christine de Matos. The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
Occupation of Japan
by Brigadier General Frayne Baker
Reflections on the Allied Occupation of Japan
by Sebastian Swann. From IDEAS at the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
A Warning from History. Don't Expect Democracy in Iraq.
by John W. Dower. Originally published in the February/March 2003 issue of Boston Review