KindheartednessIll97 t1_j9z9nqa wrote on February 25, 2023 at 5:42 PM

12th May 1945: General Tomoyuki Yamashita is fitted with a microphone, prior to his trial for war crimes commencing in Manila.Read more

VengefulMight OP t1_j9za5yf wrote on February 25, 2023 at 5:45 PM

Indeed, Britain allied with Japan to fight off the Vietnam insurgency, just months after having been fighting them.

Britain had always been a reluctant enemy of Japan, there was far more closeness between the countries in culture (Britain had taught Japan's Navy and had been allies with Japan ever since the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905), than there was between the USA and Japan.