The end of the Second World War with the surrender of Japan marks the defeat of its short-lived imperial expansionist policy‚ and symbolize the establishment of the new constitution called” pacifist”‚ with the unnecessary help of the United States. The article 9‚ one of the most important articles under the framework of this new constitution‚ prohibited the use of the military forces as a mean of the settling the international disputes and the maintenance of war potential. However‚ this post-war
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changed over into into an era of peace between Japan and the Allied powers‚ the shrill racial rhetoric of the early 1940s revealed itself to be surprisingly adaptable. Idioms that formerly had denoted the unbridgeable gap between oneself and the enemy proved capable of serving the goals of accommodation as well." (13) Dower begins by examining the propaganda churned out by both war machines (including a Frank Capra documentary‚ Know Your Enemy - Japan) and discovers two underlying patterns of stereotyping
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Pr.William Pettigrew ISC 268 A-World History Go Mitsuhashi 30/7/2009 Fukuzawa’s Positive and Negative Impact on Modern Japan and World History in 18th to 19th Century According to the world history‚ historical significant events has taken places all over the world‚ and it can be said that the events are closely related to each other and it links to the emergence of next significant event in the coming generation. For example‚ with great adventurous mind‚ Vasco de Gama has set off the Age
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During the events of World War II‚ Japan attacked Pearl Harbor of the United States. The U.S.’s retorted back with two atomic bombs and a plan to exclude people‚ including citizens‚ of Japanese ancestry in the States. The country that boasts freedom and is in some eyes‚ the embodiment of freedom‚ decided to segregate Japanese-Americans to concentration camps‚ away from their homes and work on the West Coast. They fear that the Japanese-Americans would side with Japan or work with them‚ resulting in
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Pearl Harbor Most people know what Pearl Harbor was. But most people don’t know the details that caused the United States’ history to change. Pearl Harbor was a sneak attack by Japan. It was also a harsh attack that killed thousands of innocent citizens. It killed a handful of the Japanese soldiers‚ as well. With that said‚ Pearl Harbor was an event that changed America for the better. The Pearl Harbor attack was the reason that America joined World War II. “U.S. DECLARES WAR‚” (Pearl Harbor Newspapers
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Emperor Hirohito was the 124th emperor of Japan. He was the longest living ruler in modern history. During Emperor Hirohito’s occupying the throne as ruler he tried to stay out of things and wasn’t a hand on man but as war started his military and government got out of his control and gave him a bad reputation that would live with him the rest of his life. Hirohito was called on to act as ruler in time that his father was experiencing mental illness. Hirohito tried to escape from being ruler and
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Between the years of 1500 and 1750‚ the seclusion laws of Japan were a major turning point in terms of contact with other states in social and political ways. Although Japan remained in contact with the Dutch which was their only contact with Europe‚ nevertheless this became successful for them in terms of wanting to be a state that was independent of European culture. For example starting in the year 1635‚ as Japan grew increasingly xenophobic in order to end the spread of Christianity‚ they closed
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Question: ’The rise of Japanese militarism was caused by internal factor’ To what extent do you agree with the statement? For long‚ Japan was under the emperor system and it tried to shifted into democratic politics. But during 1930s‚ it was the beginning of militarism as the militarist took power of the state‚ there were several factors causing it. To a certain extent‚ I agree to the statement that’ the rise of militarism was caused by internal factor. Firstly‚ internally‚ in political aspect
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win with Japan. In 7 December 1941 Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor killing more than 2400 soldiers and civilians. The trauma made by Japan attack was still fresh for Americans and there was not a chance America had let Japan win the war. The war became even more difficult to win as Japanese never gave up. They battled till their death. Americans soldiers invade the islands of Japan and most of the Japanese soldiers lost their life but they fought rather than giving up. Japan didn’t
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As a students of U.S. history I have recently watch Tora Tora Tora‚ a movie about war world II and the bombing of Pearl Harbor that the Japanese exceeded on waking up the “sleeping Giants”. The title of this film is made up of the code-words that were used by the Japanese to indicate that complete surprise‚ meaning “charge” or “attack”. I learned from this film that although a week before the American forces were warned and talked about an attack‚ when the time came on December 7th‚ the forces
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