facilities. Conventions held in later years extended (1906) the first to naval warfare and covered (1929) the treatment of prisoners of war. During World War II‚ particularly the conduct of Germany and Japan for their brutal and inhuman treatment of people‚ four conventions were adopted in 1949. After reading the Geneva Convention articles concerning the Prisoner of War (POW) guidelines and operations it creates a picture of the prisoners obeying the rules and chaplains is there ministering to the captured
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The War on Terror has produced several different viewpoints on the utilization of torture and its effectiveness as a means to elicit information. A main argument has been supplied that torture is ineffective in its purpose to gather information from the victim. The usefulness of torture has been questioned because prisoners might use false information to elude their torturers‚ which has occurred in previous cases of torture. It has also been supposed that torture is necessary in order to use the
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ON THE ECONOMICS OF ORGANIZED CRIME By Vimal Kumar and Stergios Skaperdas Department of Economics University of California‚ Irvine Irvine‚ CA 92697 Revised: February 13‚ 2008 Prepared for inclusion in: Garoupa‚ Nuno (ed.)‚ Criminal Law and Economics ABSTRACT: The core function of organized crime is the selling of protection. Protection can be real‚ against third-party crime‚ or manufactured by the organized crime groups themselves. Mafias and gangs emerge in areas of weak state control‚ because
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It is from war that we learned from our mistakes and know what not to repeat again. It is from war that we learned from right to wrong and it is from war that we learned from humane to ruthlessness. However‚ denying the past is essentially erroneous and selfish. We all learn from our mistakes and that is how we as humans improve‚ but refusing to believe facts that have already proven to be absolutely accurate is nothing but carelessness and naivety. The Japanese government as well as the
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METHODS OF INTERROGATION OF A PRISONER OF WAR Introduction 1. A ‘Prisoner of War’ is a person‚ whether combatant or non-combatant‚ who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The treatment of prisoners has always been matter of debate in the world and many declarations and resolutions have been made in this regard including Geneva Convention of 1949. War is a time of confusion and while many suffer from it‚ there are many who benefit in the fog of it
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deliberately attacked by Japanese navel and air forces at Pearl Harbor. After Pearl Harbor was attacked‚ President Franklin Delono Roosevelt signed executive order 9066 authorizing the secretary of War to designate parts of the country as “military areas” from which any and all persons might be excluded‚ and in which travel restrictions might be imposed. The Japanese Americans were soon forced into relocation camps around the country. The evacuation affected over 200‚000 Japanese Americans. However‚ there
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Yakuza as a part of the Japanese Society – Their influence on the Japanese’s daily life (By Philippe Thê Long Hegglin) 1. Introduction 2. Yakuza as a part of Japanese society a. Origin of the Yakuza b. Their role in the Japanese society today 3. Conclusion Introduction It is said quite often that Japan is one of the safest countries in the world‚ what I comparing to Germany or other countries can confirm from my own experiences. With
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In 1937‚ an engagement between China and Japan led to a bloody conflict between the two nations. This conflict and Japan’s desire to control East Asia dominated Japanese strategies until 1940‚ when Japan declared the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere. This Co-prosperity Sphere promoted a “bloc of Asian nations led by the Japanese and free of Western Powers” (Dower‚ 262). The position of Japan was superior and all other nations in this “sphere” were seen as subordinate. It is clear that Japan
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The Internment of Japanese Americans The internment of Japanese Americans is an example of how one historical event can influence the start of another. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor created fear throughout the nation. Newspaper articles depicted Americans of Japanese descent as untrustworthy and a danger to the nation. They warned that Japanese Americans were serving as spies for their mother country. As hysteria grew‚ eventually all persons of Japanese descent living on the West Coast‚ including
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Patrick Long 6/4/13 HST 391 History within Japanese Literature Japanese literature spans over a large period of time for writing. Earlier literature work was greatly influenced by Chinese literature‚ but after opening its ports to Western trading‚ Japan eventually developed its own style and quality of literature. Like most literature around the world and through history‚ we can learn a lot about Japans history through its literature. The Heian‚ Kamakura‚ Muromachi‚ and Tokugawa periods are
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