<P> Hundreds of thousands of Japanese were forced to relocate to the Japanese main islands . Okinawa became a main US staging point . The US covered large areas of it with military bases and continued to occupy it until 1972, years after the end of the occupation of the main islands . The bases still remain . To skirt the Geneva Convention, the Allies classified many Japanese soldiers as Japanese Surrendered Personnel instead of POWs and used them as forced labour until 1947 . The UK, France, and the Netherlands conscripted some Japanese troops to fight colonial resistances elsewhere in Asia . General Douglas MacArthur established the International Military Tribunal for the Far East . The Allies collected reparations from Japan . </P> <P> To further remove Japan as a potential future military threat, the Far Eastern Commission decided to de-industrialise Japan, with the goal of reducing Japanese standard of living to what prevailed between 1930 and 1934 . In the end, the de-industrialisation programme in Japan was implemented to a lesser degree than the one in Germany . Japan received emergency aid from GARIOA, as did Germany . In early 1946, the Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia were formed and permitted to supply Japanese with food and clothes . In April 1948 the Johnston Committee Report recommended that the economy of Japan should be reconstructed due to the high cost to US taxpayers of continuous emergency aid . </P> <P> Survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, known as hibakusha (被爆 者), were ostracized by Japanese society . Japan provided no special assistance to these people until 1952 . By the 65th anniversary of the bombings, total casualties from the initial attack and later deaths reached about 270,000 in Hiroshima and 150,000 in Nagasaki . About 230,000 hibakusha were still alive as of 2010, and about 2,200 were suffering from radiation - caused illnesses as of 2007 . </P> <P> In the Winter War of 1939--1940, the Soviet Union invaded neutral Finland and annexed some of its territory . From 1941 until 1944, Finland aligned itself with Nazi Germany in a failed effort to regain lost territories from the Soviets . Finland retained its independence following the war but remained subject to Soviet - imposed constraints in its domestic affairs . </P>

Immediately after world war ii the united states ran trade