Military occupation
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Military occupation, also called belligerent occupation or simply occupation, is temporary hostile control exerted by a ruling power's military apparatus over a sovereign territory that is outside the
American tanks at the Victory Arch in the city of Baghdad during the occupation of Iraq, 2003
British Indian troops of the 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles in the city of Kure during the Allied occupation of Japan, 1946
German troops at the Champs-Élysées in the city of Paris during the Prussian occupation of France, 1871
Lebanese protesters of the Cedar Revolution during the Syrian occupation of Lebanon, 2005
Occupation of Japan
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Japan was occupied and administered by the Allies of World War II from the surrender of the Empire of Japan on September 2, 1945, at the war's end until the Treaty of San Francisco took effect on Apri
Military occupation
…Arch in the city of Baghdad during the occupation of Iraq, 2003 British Indian troops of the 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles in the city of Kure during the Allied occupation of Japan, 1946 Military occupation, also called belligerent occupation or simply occupation, is temporary hostile control exerted by a ruling power's military…
Street Stall, Tokyo, 21 November 1945
Nihonbashi, Tokyo, in 1946
Gaetano Faillace's famous photo of Douglas MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito