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unusual facts about Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan


Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan

The Agreed Minutes to the treaty specified that the Japanese government must be consulted prior to major changes in United States force deployment in Japan or to the use of Japanese bases for combat operations other than in defense of Japan itself.


Hara Hara Tokei

In chapter 18 of the manga Susume! Ikaryaku by Kouta Hirano a group of otaku who are plotting the “terrorist act” of forcing a unilateral meeting of Comiket in opposition to laws and regulations on manga, anime, and gaming, are helped by an old soldier and veteran of the 1960 protests against the ANPO Treaty who remarks that Hara Hara Tokei, “is a dojinshi we used to read”.

Postwar Japan

During the postwar period, the United States Forces Japan act under the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan.


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