Postwar Japan at 80: 10 factors that changed the nation forever

I survived BOTH nuclear bombs that hit Japan in WW2

Eighty years ago, a flash of light changed the world forever. The stories of those who lived through the unimaginable reveal a haunting legacy of survival.

Postwar Japan at 80: 10 factors that changed the nation forever

Aleksander Pasaric/PexelsThis year marks 80 years since Japan’s catastrophic defeat in the Asia-Pacific War. In 1945, the country lay in ruins. Millions had died in battle or in the devastating Allied bombings of Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and other cities. Across Asia and the Pacific, Japan’s bid to create a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere left millions violated, impoverished, or dead. Backed into a corner, in August 1945 Emperor Hirohi…