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| 1945 September 2 |
| | World War II ends officially with the surrender of Japan, formally accepted by Douglas MacArthur | |
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| 1946 January I |
| | The Japanese emperor Hirohito renounces his traditional divine status and declares that he is mortal | |
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| 1946 March 27 |
| | Twenty-five Japanese defendants are put on trial in Tokyo, charged with war crimes | |
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| 1948 |
| | Ballerina Mikiko Matsuyama and her husband establish a family-run balllet company in Tokyo | |
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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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| 1951 |
| | Japanese film director Kurosawa Akira makes an international reputation with Rashomon | |
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| 1954 |
| | Japanese film director Kurasawa Akira directs The Seven Samurai | |
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| 1956 |
| | Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima publishes The Temple of the Golden Pavilion | |
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| c. 1965 |
| | Karaoke (abbreviated from the Japanese for 'empty orchestra') evolves in Japan | |
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| 1970 |
| | Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima commits suicide in the traditional Samurai manner | |
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