Shigeru Yoshida was a Japanese diplomat and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1946 to 1947 and from 1948 to 1954. Yoshida was one of the longest-serving Japanese prime ministers, and is the third-longest serving prime minister of post-occupation Japan.
Official portrait, 1946
Yoshida as a child
Prime Minister Yoshida signs the US-Japan Security Treaty (1951)
Meeting with Ichirō Hatoyama
Postwar Japan is the period in Japanese history beginning with the surrender of Japan to the Allies of World War II on 2 September 1945, and lasting at least until the end of the Shōwa era in 1989.
The revision of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty in 1960 generated mass public opposition and protest.
Industrial district in Fukuoka, 1970.
The 1954 film Godzilla became one of Japan's first major pop cultural exports in the postwar era.