Huntington Area Development Council President David Lieving was part of the West Virginia Department of Economic Development s marketing trip to Japan. West Virginia was the only U.S. state to have an exhibit at Automotive World 2024 in Tokyo.
Beate Sirota Gordon (1923-2012), one of the last surviving members of the GHQ team that worked on drafting Japan’s postwar Constitution, recalled in the first decade of the 21st century a scene from March 1946, about 60 years before.