Until the 1980s, Japan's peace movement was generally from the perspective of war victims. Its main purpose was to prevent Japan from getting involved in the war again, and to oppose the Japan-US security treaty and the establishment of American military bases in Japan. This was a representative slogan at that time, which made the peace movement have an obvious anti-American tendency. However, after the 1980s, especially after the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the great changes in Eastern Europe, more complicated political phenomena appeared in Japanese society. On the one hand, the rise of Japan's economic strength and the change of the world pattern have made extreme nationalism incited by the right wing spread and breed in society; On the one hand, the trend of globalization makes some pacifists begin to pay attention to the relations with neighboring countries besides Japan-US relations.

1949 February, initiated by 75 world celebrities. 1949 On April 25th, the first World Expo was held simultaneously in Paris, France and Prague, Hungary.

2,200 delegates from 72 countries attended the peace conference. This congress strengthened the unity of peace-loving people all over the world, expanded the influence of peace forces, and effectively promoted the people all over the world to defend and maintain peace.

The struggle for peace. 1959 On July 25th, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications issued this set of commemorative stamps to commemorate the anniversary of the first World Congress for the Defence of Peace 10 and to further publicize and promote the world peace movement.

1949, the Soviet Union developed and trial-produced nuclear weapons, and Mao Zedong's China army defeated Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang in Chinese mainland. The Kuomintang fled to Taiwan Province.

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1950 At the end of February, General omar bradley, Chief of Staff of the United States Joint Staff, flew to Tokyo to discuss with MacArthur the defense plan for emergencies in the Far East. On this issue, the Truman administration

Allow MacArthur to expand his authority in an emergency and allow him to control the vast waters around Japan, including the Ryukyu Islands. At the same time, Truman adopted

We adopted a provocative adventure strategy, which was embodied in the National Security Council document 48/2 in February of 1949 and the document 68 in March of 1950. Three months later,

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War broke out. In order to cope with this change, Japan reorganized its armaments, strengthened its police force, and began to accept large-scale economic assistance from the United States.

Soon, Japan not only experienced the first economic prosperity after the war, but also experienced

The first revival of nationalism. Mainly in response to these changes, the Japanese Peace Movement, a branch of the international peace movement, was born.