The Japanese warrior‚ known as the samurai‚ has played a significant role in Japan’s history and culture throughout the centuries. Their ancestors can be traced back to as far as can be remembered. Some stories have become mysterious legends handed down over the centuries. In this report you will learn who the samurai were‚ their origins as we know them‚ how they lived and fought and their evolution to today. It will be clear why the samurai stand out as one of the most famous group of warriors
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ships westward. On April 1‚ 1945‚ the first land battle was led by the 77th division and it took place on a group of islands neighboring Okinawa‚ known as the Kerama Islands. The division was eventually able to secure an airfield after enduring kamikaze attacks upon
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Conflicts are often started by the utilization of labels. By labeling a certain person or calling them a name it is essentially grouping them into a larger idea or force. In the film Empire of the Sun directed by Steven Spielberg and the novel When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka the main characters struggle with identifying which side of World War II they are supposed to be aligned with. The protagonists from both of the works experience a moment where the line between good and bad is extremely
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feeling behind this behavior is that it seems more reassuring and safe to be with others‚ even though everybody is going to die. Why are the Japanese so vulnerable to the power of suggestion? There are no samurai left in Japan today‚ there are no kamikaze pilots either. All that remains is a feeling that suicide can be beautiful. The suicidal tendency among Japanese authors has been extremely high‚ and if you just list them‚ going through the decades there are many who took their lives. And the pattern
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they didn’t want to lose any more American lives. These American lives are major values to their loved ones. In this document it shows a poster saying "Avenge Pearl Harbor"(document A) by that meaning how the japanese attacked Pearl Harbor by kamikaze basically bombing the boats and tankers by crashing into them with the enemy plane. Since Japan bombed the tankers‚ United States are going to get them back with a bigger surprise that will cause utter destruction and finally put an end to the war
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Nationalism and militarism greatly influenced total war in the First World War‚ including its effects and damages on other countries such as the damage on French soil‚ where all the initial fighting took place‚ and the collapse of age-old empires such as the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire‚ and the loss of land such as the land lost in Russia when they left the war‚ losing over a third of its worker population in the land it had to surrender. Countries learned the dangers of excessive
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of the Shintô religion. This was Japan’s native religion‚ which believes that the emperor is descended from gods who created Japan and is therefore semi divine. The Japanese would give their lives in order to cause damage to their enemies. The kamikaze pilots‚ who were named for the "divine wind" (kami kaze)‚ would fly their plane into the ships of their enemies to cause the most amount of damage. The battles that took place on the islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa have shown how difficult a full invasion
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regional takeover by Germany and Japan that involved nations throughout Europe and Asia. The scale of conflict was on a much larger level during World War II. The one outstanding strategy or tactic that was used by the Japanese was the use of the kamikaze pilots. The differences in technology are the greatest. During the First World War inventions like poisonous gas shells‚ tanks‚ and aircraft were very primitive; but the Second World War produced well built tanks‚ both land and amphibious‚ aircraft
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Matthew Wynia Research Paper Mrs. Weiking 17 December 2012 Aviation of the World Wars A spitfire streaked through the sky‚ its pilot looking for an enemy. Suddenly‚ a red tri-plane appeared out of nowhere‚ and shot a missile‚ taking out the plane’s wing. As the spitfire plummeted to the ground‚ the pilot wondered why he had tried to take on the Red Baron. Suddenly he collided with a biplane bomber‚ taking it with him to a fiery end… Wait a moment. Wasn’t the Red Baron long before spitfires
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battleship Yamato‚ but the Allied submarines spotted it before it could get too close‚ so the Yamato was sunk before it did too much damage. One of the more popular battles in Okinawa is Horseshoe ridge. In the battle of Okinawa the Japanese used kamikaze pilots to bomb the Allied forces.General Buckner was killed in action just before the battle ended. The end of the Battle of Okinawa was because General Ushijima and his chief of staff‚ General Cho committed ritual
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