Most of the Japanese POW camps involved doing hard labor for war profit. The prisoners were put to work in mostly mines‚ fields‚ shipyards‚ and factories with only the energy they got from only 600 calories or less a day. Some of the camps were located at mine sites
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entered Japanese waters with a modern battle fleet‚ to request that the Japanese open up avenues of trade with the United States. Initially these were refused and the ships left. Commodore Perry then returned and threatened the Japanese Government with a show of force unless they accepted trade agreements with America. The Japanese‚ still almost medieval in policy and weapons‚ had no choice to give in. How did trade with the United States change Japanese society? Pg. 493 The United
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LITERATURE TIMELINE Date | Literary Period | Authors/Works | 800-400 BC | This period was dominated by Homer and other Greek tragedians | The Iliad and The Odyssey by HomerOedipus the King by SophoclesMedea by Euripedes | 250 BC - AD 150 | Writers of the Roman Empire are most noted in this time period | Famous authors from this period: Virgil‚ Horace‚ and Ovid | 450-1066 | Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period | Beowulf The rise of haiku poetry Tale of Genji by Japanese writer Murasaki
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How far was the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905‚ responsible for the outbreak of the 1905 Revolution? The Russo- Japanese War‚ although an important rationale for the outbreak of the 1905 Revolution ‚ was caused by many other problems which made a foundation for the War as well as the Revolution. Due to the War the economy suffered‚ adding on to the problems that Russia was already facing from a lack of preceding modernization‚ making this very important as the majority were affected causing
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As the senior seagoing admiral in the Japanese fleet‚ Yamamoto prepared for war against the United States. Contrary to popular belief‚ Yamamoto argued for a war with the United States once Japan made the fateful decision to invade the rich lands of Southeast Asia; others in the naval ministry hoped to avoid war with America even while making war with Dutch and British possessions in Asia. When the Japanese emperor Hirohito adopted Yamamoto’s view‚ the admiral focused his energy on the coming fight
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Summary of the American Colonial Period The rule of the United States over the Philippines had two phases. The first phase was from 1898 to 1935‚ during which time Washington defined its colonial mission as one of tutelage and preparing the Philippines for eventual independence. Political organizations developed quickly‚ and the popularly elected Philippine Assembly (lower house) and the U.S.-appointed Philippine Commission (upper house) served as a bicameral legislature. The ilustrados formed
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Japanese Economy report Topic: Japan`s specific economical problems As every country in the world Japan is facing its specific problems as well as some of them are common to others too. (1)For example there are some problems that are very common with the other developed countries like aging society‚ government budget deficits etc. For those problems international cooperation and exchange of the ideas/successful case-studies are widely known as a good start for tackling them. But apart from those
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Aritaka-san and Morita-san. Out of all the topics that we discussed together‚ I think the one that struck a deep chord in me was when Morita-san talked about her visit to the National Museum of Singapore and how she cried when she read about the Japanese Occupation in Singapore and how both parties suffered during the war. She then went on to explain that history is a very important subject which we need to impart to our next generation such that they can understand the past mistakes and reasons
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Literature (from Latin litterae (plural); letter) is the art of written work. The word literature literally means: "things made from letters". Literature is commonly classified as having two major forms—fiction and non-fiction—and two major techniques—poetry and prose. Literature may consist of texts based on factual information (journalistic or non-fiction)‚ a category that may also include polemical works‚ biographies‚ and reflective essays‚ or it may consist of texts based on imagination (such
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Asian Literature and Philosophy Jennifer Barzona ENG/301 June 3‚ 2013 Marc Bonanni Asian Literature and Philosophy Asia‚ the world’s largest continent‚ expands from the area formerly known as the U.S.S.R. to the Bering Strait and as far south as the Indian Ocean. Scholars limit the areas of Asia to focus predominantly on the Eastern Asian area in regard to Asian American literary guidelines. Asian American literature allows a further exploration of the past and traditional Asian philosophies
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