Planning Conference for Democracy and Planned Political Change: Japan 1945-52

FAIN: RO-*0074-76

Social Science Research Council (Brooklyn, NY 11201-2790)
Robert E. Ward (Project Director: December 1978 to October 1990)

To study selected aspects of the U.S. occupation of Japan (1945-1952) and specifically the planning of this occupation and its consequences seen from the vantage point of 30 years later and the degree to which the political changes initiated during the occupation represent continuous or discontinuous development in Japan's 20th century history.