The Wakamatsu Conference was the last major conference between U.S. President Joe Steele and Soviet leader Leon Trotsky. The Conference took place in the late summer of 1946 at Wakamatsu, Japan a few months after World War II. Wakamatsu was chosen because it was one of the lightly bombed cities in Japan. In the end, the conference did nothing more than set the stage for increasingly poor relations between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., and the Japanese War two years later.