This is a guest opinion column

Within the past week U.S. President Donald Trump and Japan’s newly-minted Prime Minister, Sakae Takaichi, finalized agreements between the two countries relating to both economics and security. Cooperation, mutual pledges, and investment frameworks ranged across sectors, from biotechnology, to shipbuilding, to space exploration. Both countries’ leaders claimed that these agreements would usher in a new “Golden Age” for U.S.-Japan relations. While such high hopes will take years to come to fruition, if they do at all, exploring the countries’ shared post-war history, and considering how Alabama fits into that history, will inform all who root for our shared prosperity with Japan and her people.

Following WWII, the United States and Japan transitioned rapidly

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