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Area studies (also regional studies ) are interdisciplinary fields of research and scholarship pertaining to particular geographical, national/federal, or cultural regions. The term exists primarily as a general description for what are, in the practice of scholarship, many heterogeneous fields of research, encompassing both the social sciences and the humanities. Typical area study programs involve history, political science, sociology, cultural studies, languages, geography, literature, and related disciplines. In contrast to cultural studies, area studies often include diaspora and emigration from the area. Contents 1 History 2 Controversy within the field 3 Fields 4 Institutions 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External links History Interdisciplinary area studies became increasingly common in the United States of America and in Western scholarship after World War II. Before that war American universities had just a few ...

Soviet and Communist studies is the field of historical studies of the Soviet Union and other Communist states, as well as of communist parties, such as the Communist Party USA, that existed or still exist in some form in many countries, inside or outside the former Soviet Bloc. It is a field rife with conflict and controversy. While this area is now seldom offered as a field of study in itself, in which one might become a specialist, there are related fields emerging, as may be judged by the titles of academic journals, some of which have changed to reflect the passage of time since 1989 and the effect of the end of Soviet rule. These include: Communist and Post-Communist Studies , Europe-Asia Studies , Post-Soviet Affairs , Communist Studies and Transition Politics , Communisme , and Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization . The historiography of strictly Communist studies is also changing, with some different models of its aims, as well as the major shift ...

Empire of Japan (1945–1947) Japan (1947–1952) 1945–1952 Top: Civil and naval ensign Bottom: State flag Imperial Seal Map of Japan under Allied occupation Japanese archipelago, placed under the authority of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, effective 1945–1952 (with the exceptions of Iwo Jima, under US authority until 1968, and Okinawa, under US authority until 1972) Japanese Taiwan and the Spratly Islands, placed under the authority of China Karafuto Prefecture and the Kuril Islands, placed under the authority of the Soviet Union Japanese Korea south of the 38th parallel north, placed under the authority of the United States Army Military Government in Korea, granted independence in 1948 as South Korea Kwantung Leased Territory, occupied by the Soviet Union 1945–1955, returned to China in 1955 Japanese Korea north of the 38th parallel north, placed und...