him making that horrific decision. In my opinion‚ President Truman’s decision to drop the bomb on Japan was justified. First of all‚ the United States did not immediately drop the bomb on Japan. In fact‚ they considered 4 other options that they thought would end the war. Their first option was invade Japan‚ but that would lead to high American casualty rates. Their second option was to warn Japan about the U.S.’s nuclear progress‚ but that would increase the risk of having more American soldiers
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Almost one million people die in Japan every year. In other words‚ people die every 31 seconds. Some people die because of illness. Some people die because of car accident. Some people commit suicide. There are many kinds of death in this world. I believe most of those deaths are disconsolate and absurd. However‚ the honorable but unbelievable death existed in Japan in the middle ages. We call that hara-kiri. Hara-kiri is basically an act of killing your self by cutting open your stomach with a sword
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Japan has the oldest life expectancy in the world. That means people in Japan live a really really long time. Men live to 79 years old. Women live a little over 86 years old. What in the world causes Japanese people to live so long? After WWII‚ Japan had one of the lowest life expectancies in the world‚ which suggests it’s not genetics that keeps them alive for so long (the guy in the picture above just turned 113). It’s not even that Japanese people visit doctors 12+ times a year. The answer is
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COSTAAT Was the Japan Earthquake Manmade? Project submitted to Ms. Karen Paul SCIE 201 - Contemporary Issues in Science BY Rishard Khan On March 11‚ 2011‚ a magnitude 9.0 earthquake the strongest ever recorded struck the East coast of northern Japan. It Japan triggered a massive tsunami along the Pacific Coast of northeastern Japan. As a result over 20000 people were killed and the Fukushima Daichi nuclear reactor has been severely damaged so Low-levels of radiation have been emitted
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Quebec holds different views than the rest of Canada. This leads to tension between and their English speaking countrymen. Quebecers tend to be more private and reserved. Ethnocentrism is prevalent in Canada but particularly in Quebec. Japan Japan has a score of 46 on the
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beginning of the 19th century‚ both China and Japan were societies governed by Confucian tradition. In Japan‚ Meiji-era modernization made it a great power over the course of a generation‚ but in China efforts at modernizing reform over the same period produced political fragmentation and rendered it vulnerable to foreign encroachment. Why? China‚ the so-called Middle Kingdom‚ was the center of civilization in Asia for hundreds of years. Leaders from far and wide came to pay homage to the Chinese
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DBQ The cotton and cloth production in Japan has greatly increased. Japan is hiring more and more workers preferably females workers. The women don’t get paid the first year‚ says the older sister of Aki (Document 3). Most of the entire factory workers were farmers; they went to work in the factories to make more money for their families’ (Document 5). “For the last few decades there has been a rapid decline of hand woven cloth”‚ (Document 6) this just shows you that machines are taking over
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for food‚ diet‚ technology‚ and infrastructure. Next came the Yayoi period‚ which was from 300 BC to 300 AD. The characteristics of the Yayoi period came about through a mix of late Jomon traits and influences from the new settlers from the mainland and the Korean peninsula. The name Yayoi comes from the Yayoi quarter of the Bunkyo ward in Tokyo where the first archaeological discoveries for it were made (Japan Reference‚ 2013. Para. 1). This period was characterized by the widespread use of wet-field
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Japan today has a distinct culture known around the world. However‚ at one point in the ancient past‚ its culture was deeply influenced by China and especially Korea. Korean influences in particular helped the early Japanese rulers begin to develop institutions and a central government. However‚ over time‚ japan began to develop its own distinct institutions and culture‚ reaching a flowering during the Heian era. Early Japan developed under the strong influence of Korea and to some extent China.
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Japan Against All Odds Japan is one now of the most advanced countries in the world and but it hasn’t always been this way. It has had to overcome many problems to succeed against all odds. This essay will be finding out how it has managed this. One of Japan’s many problems was its physical geography. Japan’s land is over 75% mountainous and has over 80 active volcanoes. The lack of flat land means that is difficult for them to build vital roads for transport. Its weather and climate can cause
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