By MICHINORI ISHIDAIRA/ Staff Writer
October 11, 2022 at 07:10 JST
A U.S. Army unit marches through the present-day Hibiya-dori street in 1948. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward has reproduced a rare map from 1947 that shows how the postwar U.S. occupation of Japan had dominated and sprawled across the places locals walk past every day. [Read More]
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