...All about Japan Japan formally Nippon-koku or Nihon-koku, literally "[the] State of Japan") is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters that make up Japan's name mean "sun-origin", which is why Japan is often referred to as the "Land of the Rising Sun". Japan is a stratovolcanic archipelago of 6,852 islands. The four largest islands are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku, which together comprise about ninety-seven percent of Japan's land area. Japan has the world's tenth-largest population, with over 126 million people. Honshū's Greater Tokyo Area, which includes the de facto capital of Tokyo and several surrounding prefectures, is the largest metropolitan area in the world, with over 30 million residents. Japan first appears in written history in the Chinese Book of Han. According to the Records of the Three Kingdoms, the most powerful kingdom on the archipelago during the 3rd century was called Yamataikoku. Buddhism was first introduced to Japan from Baekje of Korea, but the subsequent development of Japanese Buddhism was primarily influenced by China. Despite early resistance, Buddhism was promoted by the ruling class and gained widespread acceptance beginning in the Asuka period (592–710). Japan is a constitutional monarchy where the power of the Emperor is...
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...airplanes. Immediately, with a rush of shame and animosity, President Franklin Roosevelt convinced the congress to declare war on Japan. Consequently, the U.S. government determined to isolate the Japanese-Americans in the mountains or desert to scrutinize and eradicate any existent of potential espionage. Japanese-Americans not only have to dwell in insufferable condition, but they were also impelled to farm for the U.S. government, indirectly betraying the mother country. In contemporary American society, many nativists regarded the Japanese internment as justify, however, this arbitrary decision had undoubtedly afflicted many Japanese-Americans mentally and physically from 1942 to 1944. The magazine article "How to Tell Your Friends from the Japs" in document 1 provides discrimination of Japanese-Americans two weeks after the aggression on Pearl Harbor, where all Japanese are virtually short, rarely obese, closer eyes, positive, dogmatic, arrogant, hesitant, nervous, and laugh loudly at the inappropriate time; these discriminations enormously humiliate the Japanese and developed into a fraudulent conceptualization of standard Japanese, which depreciates them in other individual's eyes. Furthermore, these stereotypes of Japanese aggravate the intensification of race relation between Japanese and American, where America eventually utilizes first deadliest nuclear weapon in the world, the atomic bomb. Similarly, in document 3 furnishes the forcible relocate experience of Grace Nakamura...
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...OBASAN Just Race? Racism is an irrational bias, positive or negative, towards people of a racial background. It has been a part of the social fabric since recorded history. In Joy Kogawa’s Obasan (1983), the protagonist, a Japanese-Canadian woman by the name of Naomi, is inadvertently introduced to the atrocities suffered by Canadians of Japanese ancestry during the Second World War. Naomi, now an adult, discovers the hardship and institutional racism that Japanese people faced, whereby they were forbidden “to go anywhere in this wide dominion without a permit” and the government had “requisitioned the Livestock Building…to house 2,000 ‘Japs pending removal’” (Kogawa, 1983, p.95), through a series of letters written by her Aunt Emily to her mother. The letters and conversations between Naomi and Emily reveal the impact of prejudicial policies and discourse on people of all ages including, Stephen, Naomi’s younger brother. The themes of racism, both of the subconscious and overt varieties, highlighted by Kogawa are also prevalent in Angela Aujla’s “Others in Their Own Land: Second Generation South Asian Canadian Women, Racism and the Persistence of Colonial Discourse” which points out the role of government as well as the general public in propagating racial prejudice against South Asian women. In Obasan, Kogawa provides evidence that shows how Japanese people faced racial discrimination through and after World War II. Aunt Emily’s letters written to her sister, Nesan...
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...On February 19, 1945 American soldiers made their first strike on the japanese, beginning the battle of Iwo Jima. Seventy years ago U.S. marines began the invasion in Iwo Jima, leading to many deaths of both sides, the Americans and the Japanese. Iwo Jima was just a island until the japanese took over and made it into their airbase. The island was very important strategically for the U.S. fighter planes because it could serve as their base for U.S. heavy bombers to fly to japan from bases on saipan, but the japanese wasn't trying to give it up that easy. The Japs were unique for their top three strategies which were that they fought beneath ground, they believed in dying for their country with a saying called “no japanese survivors”...
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...Jap was busted in one of the bars downtown for carrying hand grenades in his field jacket. However, the worst was still to come. It was 6 A.M and so I went to the mess hall for breakfast, paid my $0.50 since I was now on separate rations, and housing as a result of my recent marriage. Debbie had stayed over last night with Scott so we could get an early start to meet Tom and the gang at Hope Mills Lake for a party. We were back at the house and I was wired from speed when the phone rang. It was Jap. He was downtown and going to meet with John the Baptist; a local dealer who we didn’t get along with on the strip. Jap asked if I could come down to meet and back him up, I’d just gotten off all night guard duty, and so I asked him to give me an hour. Scott asked where I was going, and whether he needed to come along as...
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...Application-Level Requirements List 1. Value of Dollar 2. Value of comparing currency 3. Calculation of dollar value against subject currency value 4. Display results Input-Process-Output Chart Complete the following input-process-output chart for the application using a structured programming approach. Input | Process | Output | Dollar Value | get | Real number | Florien currency | get | Real number | Calculate difference | Divide | Decimal | Display results | get | Value | End | | | Hierarchy Chart Complete a hierarchy chart for the application by typing into the textboxes below. Main Module Main Module Display Results Display Results Calculate Calculate Foreign currency Foreign currency Dollar Dollar Currency Conversion Development Assignment—Flowcharts Control Flow Diagram—Main Control ------------------------------------------------- Begin Is Dollar < or > Quit ? Display Results Is Foreign currency <or> Yes No Calculate Show difference End Begin Is Dollar < or > Quit ? Display Results Is Foreign currency <or> Yes No Calculate Show difference End ------------------------------------------------- Control Flow Diagram—Display Menu Begin Enter currency name Valid selection ? Error 4 : Invalid menu selection No Yes End Quit ? Yes Invaild Quit Verified ...
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...He recalls seeing planes passing as he was getting dressed that morning then recognizing that it was Japanese. Eugene walked down to the mess hall then onto the upper deck just to find a rude awakening and to find out what was really happening. His first words out of his mouth that morning were, “The Japs are here!!!” Eugene ran to his battle station in a shocked terror feeling and coming to his realization that this was really happening and that no one was prepared for what was taking place right in front of his own two eyes. He says, “That war is one of the most important things that has happened in my life and that I’m not scared to talk about it.” Eugene Gorman does not take part in any Pearl Harbor Survivors Associations. Lester Silva was on the deck on the USS Detroit talking with the ship’s bugler, then he looked up at the sky and seen Japanese planes filling the skies likes cereal in a bowl. Suddenly, the USS Detroit was under heavy and serious strafing. At that time Lester Silva was unable to get to his assigned battle station...
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...In the 1940s, Japanese Americans faced much persecution. The events of World War II created vast amounts of racism in the United States, especially toward Japanese Americans. They were forced into internment camps; they were taken away from their own lives and treated poorly there. The novel Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas envisions what it was like to live near an internment camp, and it gives a glimpse of how people viewed Japanese Americans during this time. This novel and David Guterson’s novel Snow Falling on Cedars are similar. Both novels were written within the same fifteen year time period, and they shed light on the prejudice against Japanese Americans during and after World War II. Snow Falling on Cedars is primarily an investigation...
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...The Allied bomber offensive against Nazi Germany remains one of the most controversial campaigns of the Second World War. It certainly was one of the most costly. By May of 1945, two million tons of bombs had fallen on Germany. Over half a million German civilians had died, and 80,000 Allied airmen had perished as well. Was the bombing strategically or morally justified? In Fire and Fury, Prof. Hansen (Toronto), a specialist in multiculturalism who has investigated the question of German civilian losses in the war and worked to counter Holocaust Denial, examines the American and British approaches to strategic bombing, and finds that the two nations used very different methods, which produced very different results. He also argues that American and British bomber generals proceeded with very different intentions, and that, in moral terms, intentions matter. In general, the British preferred to conduct area raids against urban targets at night, aimed at causing wide scale devastation of German cities. The Americans preferred daylight “precision” raids aimed at targets of military and economic significance. These generalizations had exceptions. The RAF was capable of brilliant precision, and proved this in the raids on the Ruhr dams. The American precision raids could inflict massive collateral damage and casualties on German cities. On a few occasions, the Americans resorted to area bombing, with horrific results. Hansen argues that American precision bombing...
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...Think about how different the world would be if JFK never died and if he was able to start his new currency he planned on using for the free and peaceful americans, maybe kennedy was shot for a reason and he was a threat to the evil rich man control. Both Kennedy and Roosevelt want freedom and liberty for all american citizen. Even though Roosevelt wanted peace he did what he had to do for millions of people around the globe. Kennedy wanted peace all around the globe a nation under god ,but he was shot. Both presidents tried to bring necessary changes Roosevelt created change with war kennedy tried to make change with peace. Both Kennedy and Roosevelt wanted peace and freedom . Roosevelt wanted to stay neutral in ww2 but once the japs bombed...
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...Massacre of Christian Brothers (Feb 12, 1945) So the first part of the video talked about the massacre of the Christian Brothers within the walls of the chapel and it happened on Feb 12, 1945. Still talked about until today are the brutal killings of 16 Christian Brothers and refugees at De La Salle College, with 70 refugees, women and young girls (attempted to rape some of the dying women), children Some shot and others bayoneted (they were then subsequently shot, slashed or bayoneted. Those who did not die in the attack were left to bleed to death) | | | The chapel was then set on fire but it was not destroyed because it was built of marble and concrete. Only 10 people survived including one De La Salle Brother This is a statement from Jack Percival (war correspondent) Estimates that a total of 82 priests and brothers were killed during the battle BOMBING: SECOND part of the video talked about the bombing of Intramuros and there were 7 churches in Intramuros alone. Also known as walled city, much of Intramuros was damaged by bombings from both Japanese who occupied it and used it as their headquarters and prison and by U.S. forces who besieged the Japanese. It was also the bastion of strong Christian Faith. There used to stand, within the walls of Intramuros, seven houses of God, all built with architectural magnificence. At the end of World War II, virtually all of the structures in Intramuros were destroyed, with only the damaged Church of San Agustin still...
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...Japanese-Canadians were settled in British Columbia, the government decided to let the Japanese-Canadians move into other provinces eastwards or be deported back to a now crippled Japan. Many of the Japanese were conflicted whether they should stay within a country that despises them, or move back to their homeland, which was still recovering from a lost war. Once they decided, ( the majority chose to stay within Canada) they were sent back to their homes to gather their belongings. But when the Japanese Canadians got back, they discovered that many of their homes, properties and valuable belongings were sold. Their properties had been vandalized with anti-Japanese slurs and signs posted around their neighbourhoods like “we don’t serve Japs here” or “Japs not...
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...tactical intelligence as even espionage had contributed, any benefit gained could be undermined by limited analytical skills and disaster of codebreaking underpinned by USA's successful code breaking in Battle of Midway. However, as a result of this lack of colonial defense and inability to sift real evidence from widespread allegations due to lack of matching and proportionate analytical capacity prior Pearl Harbor attack, the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor favors the public allegations and was assumed to be result of years of clandestine preparation by extensive Japanese networks of spies and collaborators as Admiral Stark told a US Congressional inquiry in 1946 “We had felt that not only in Hawaii but at practically all our posts the Japs knew everything we were doing”. The...
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...“The only good Jap is a dead Jap.” This was the attitude of a California congressman after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. He stated that every returning interned citizen were to be greeted with death. A large part of U.S. History was the Japanese American Internment during the last three years of World War II. The most important topics involved in this topic are the history, the people involved, and the result and outcome. The main event that led to the eventual internment of American citizens was the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, one of Japan’s greatest naval commanders, devised an extremely risky plan to hopefully disable the U.S. Pacific Fleet in a single strike. He had intentions of trying to force the Americans...
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...To get beaten down by a fool like Keet Wilson was something he couldn’t accept.Then he told Mose and Rico what Keet Wilson said if I mess with the boat, then I’m messing with him. When Tomi popped up to get air Billy, Mose, and Rico were sitting stone still with Keet Wilson, Chip and Dwight and three others with sticks in their hands. Keet crossed his arms and studied him shaking his head. Keet shoved Billy from behind, “ You Jap-loving traitor.” All three of them jumped into the water with their clothes on and swam out to the boat. Keet spat and stabbed his stick into my pants, then beat them into the dirt, he grabbed our shirts and pants and tossed them into the water. Slowly, they all backed off and left, Keet mumbling something at us Overall,Tomi hopes to find hope in his objective of raising Papa’s fishing boat, sunk in the canal by the army on the day of the attack. As Japanese Americans, Tomi and his family find new rivals everywhere. These rivals include Keet Wilson. Even with the help of his allies, it seems impossible, but Tomi is decisive. Just as Keet Wilson is decisive to stop...
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