So I was reading about the bombings of Japan during WWII for a research paper and I came across a section which quotes a French Journalist, Robert Guillian, and I was confused. Why would a French National be allowed to stay, and report, in authoritarian Japan? Additionally, have there been other occurrences where a member of an enemy state, or an allied member of an enemy state, was allowed to stay in the country?
Vichy France wasn't an enemy of Japan. France had declared war on Germany (1939) and Italy (1940), but I see no signs of any French regime declaring war on anyone else. In any event, those French declarations of war were pretty nugatory after the armistice, and the UK alliance was in tatters after Mers-el-Kebir. Vichy France allowed Japan to establish military bases in French Indo-China in 1940, and later Japan took the territory militarily but allowed French administration, and those were among the causes of the US boycott.