After the successful American invasion of Japan which began on October 15th 1945, the Red army occupied Hokkaido and the the northern point of Honshu and the remaining home islands were occupied by the United States, The Free British and The Republic of China, Tokyo remained under joint administration. In August 1946, the Red Army established a Soviet Civil Authority to rule the country until a domestic regime, friendly to the USSR, could be established under Japanese communist leader Kyuichi Tokuda. In 1948, the People's Republic of Japan was declared. After the Soviet forces' departure in 1949, the main agenda in the following years was unification of Japan from both sides until the consolidation of Kantarō Suzuki regime in the South with American military support and the suppression of