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| 1947 |
| | | 33-year old Aung San, prime minister of Burma, and six of his ministers are assassinated during a cabinet meeting | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Ballerina Mikiko Matsuyama and her husband establish a family-run balllet company in Tokyo | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Kim Il Sung becomes prime minister of North Korea on the withdrawal of the Soviet occupying force | |
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| 1948 December 23 |
| | | Japanese premier Tojo Hideki is convicted in the Tokyo war crimes trial and is hanged | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Defeated by the Communists, Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) resigns before the final collapse of his regime | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Mao Zedong, standing on the Gate of Heavenly Peace in Beijing, proclaims the new People's Republic of China | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Mao Zedong's long-standing ally Zhou Enlai heads both the home and foreign departments of the new republic | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) sets up a new Republic of China in Taiwan, vowing to recapture the rest of the nation in due course | |
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| 1949 |
| | | The Dutch concede independence for Indonesia with Achmed Sukarno as president | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Batavia reverts to its original name of Jakarta and becomes the capital of Indonesia | |
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