Thesis Statement: The American and Japanese animation are good in their own way, but the American Animation is outnumbered in better qualities of Japanese anime. ... Anime History It has been said by Fred Patten: The earliest Japanese animation was by individual film hobbyists insipired by American and European pioneer animators. ... The Style The styles of American animation and the style of Japanese animation is totally different. ... Gender Roles and Relations Most essential difference in the Americans and the Japanese is the roles of the genders. ... In the end, american a...

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Japan's Foreign Policy Upon focusing on Japan and it's foreign policy objectives, one must take into account the world and the image that Japan is trying to project upon it, for both it's self and the Japanese people. ... "Japanese foreign policy? ... "Japan is reinventing superpower - again. ... In the core of such interest is to ensure security and prosperity of Japan and the Japanese people. ... Although Japan has capitalized on engaging globally, the world does not feel welcome in Japan. ...

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The accused Japanese were average American citizens; their only fault was their ancestry, being Japanese. ... Fear was also present during the Japanese American Internment as well. ... They felt that the Japanese living in America were still loyal to Japan. ... Apparently this was all Japanese Americans. ... The Japanese being very much American and patriotic were rounded up with out much protest. ...

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In her article "The Japanese and American Educational Methods," Jane Korission states that most American high school students are underachievers, and are not pushed enough to reach their ultimate goals whereas, Japanese students have shown the best performance in all categories of the mathematics exams. ... In his article "About the Japanese Educational System," Hans Lee explains that in America, though curriculum could not compare to Japan, American students have time to vent, and spend time with their friends after class because there is less homework. ... In America, compulsory education la...

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However, America did very little to try and stop Japan because they thought that military action on them was not reasonable as Japan was to far away. ... July 1940, America warned Japan not to advance into Indo-China, though the Japanese had already forced France and Britain into closing supply roots from there and Burma to China. ... This was a great loss for the Japanese because America supplied 80% of Japan's oil. ... On July 25, America froze all Japanese assets in the USA and imposed a total oil ban. ... The Americans, who had broken the Japanese diplomatic code, were fully aware of ...

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Japanese-Canadians were specifically stigmatized for their perceived unassailability, economic competitiveness, high birth rate, and a lingering loyalty to Japan (Ward 459). ... They created a public outcry against those of Japanese ancestry across British Columbia. There was immense public support for the internment of all Japanese in Canada. ... It provides no conclusive evidence of Japanese subversion. ... In 1943, there were reports of Japanese activity in North American waters, which caused a great deal of panic (Johnson and Granatstein 119). ...

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Thesis Statement: The American and Japanese animation are good in their own way, but the American Animation is outnumbered in better qualities of Japanese anime. ... Anime History It has been said by Fred Patten: The earliest Japanese animation was by individual film hobbyists insipired by American and European pioneer animators. ... The Style The styles of American animation and the style of Japanese animation is totally different. ... Gender Roles and Relations Most essential difference in the Americans and the Japanese is the roles of the genders. ... In the end, american a...

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As Asian Americans, they were outcasts in their American schools. ... After their "American school" both the Chinese and Japanese had more studies to attend to. ... They wore American clothes and began to adapt the American style. ... Many Chinese and Japanese children changed their names to more American ones. ... When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, America seemed to have focused their racism towards the Japanese instead of the Chinese. ...

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It all started to get worse for the Japanese Americans when the Japanese ambushed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. This act of aggression aggravated the already existent discrimination against the Japanese immigrants in America. ... Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Americans were already facing a large amount of discrimination. ... Most of the Japanese immigrants and their offspring lived in small, rural farming communities in farming communities in California (93,000 of the total Japanese-American population). ... The internment camps were an experience that most of the Japane...

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It was said that America was perfecting a bomb with enough explosive to destroy the world. ... The American navy and the American army had a big difference in opinions concerning this issue. ... At the back of his mind he had formulated a plan that would not sacrifice the lives of thousands of Americans and would most definitely defeat Japan. ... He was suggesting that an invasion of mainland Japan would cost the lives of some 500,000 to 1,000,000 American troops. ... It was decided over the next couple of days that the best decision up to this time, was to invade the Japanese mainland, howeve...

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The Americans and Japanese did not come to an agreement and the battle was underway. ... Warnings The Americans had two early warnings of the attack. ... The Americans were indeed surprised and shocked with the attack. ... In terms of losses, the Americans were clearly devastated. ... The United States The Americans were devastated and embarrased by their loss to the Japanese. ...

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Pearl Harbor was one of the most vicious attacks on American soil. ... The United States responded by creating Japanese-American Internment Camps, which uprooted tens of thousands of Japanese-American families. And later America decided to use atomic weapons to end the war with Japan. ... This called for the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese-Americans for up to four years, most of which were legal U.S. citizens. ... The conditions were so harsh that some Japanese Americans died. ...

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America feared that her Philippine and Guam islands would soon fall into Japan conquest. ... The attack raised the morale of the American and Australia forces as Japan seemed invincible. Japan thought of a strategy to down America. ... By 1945, the American marines had taken control of the Jima; a Japanese island. ... Japanese on the other hand tried to hold on to their agenda but they could not resist the American power. ...

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Why did America drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima? ... Thus, the United States had dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in order to end the war "almost instantly" and avoid a bloody invasion, there by saving both Japanese and American lives (Takaki 4). Lance Morrow writes that the bomb saved both Japanese and American lives, where in reality only American lives were saved. ... For the United States during the years between Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and America's atomic bombing of Hiroshima, there were two wars; the European war and the Pacific War. ... Truman explained the r...

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The 1870s ushered an era of bunmei kaika, or "Civilization and Enlightenment," into Japan.2 During this decade the works of great philosophers such as the de Tocqueville and Rousseau found their way into Japanese translation to the profound interest of the Japanese population, especially the youth.3 Students in Japan learned of the theories regarding civil liberties and natural rights, and began to claim that such rights were not only fundamental to Western societies, but to Japan as well. ... " After the Shogunate's fall in 1868, Japan turned eagerly toward Western ideas. ...

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Argue your case with particular reference Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and USA. ... During the 1920s most sectors of the American economy grew. ... Similar discontent towards the Japanese government grew with riots occurring as well as the popularity of the Communist party growing. ... In Japan the silk industry was especially hard hit. One third of Japan's export earnings came from the silk industry. ...

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Jimmy Doolittle Tokyo's citizens felt secure eventho at war; Radio Tokyo assured the people they and Emperor Hirohito were safe from enemy attacks Kamikaze mystique constituted a spiritual fortress around the Japanese homeland. No foreign attackers since Kublai Khan 1281 when a violent storm had turned him back; this storm called kamikaze or divine wind During the previous 4 ½ months their armed forces had scored triumph after triumph (including assaults on American territories of Guam, Philippines and Hawaii) on the war fronts of the Pacific; victory fever reigns A US submariner ...

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During World War II Japanese Americans were portrayed as a racial nest of spies and sabotagers. ... Public newspapers ran stories about outrage against Japanese Americans by Californians. They wrote stories about how Japanese Americans are responsible for Pearl Harbor. ... One hundred twenty thousand Japanese Americans were sent to concentration camps. ... The Japanese Americans were held in detention camps for three years from 1942-1945. ...

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The Israeli infants behaved rather differently from the American ones. ... Japanese infants are treated very differently from Israeli infants. Japanese mothers practically never leave their infants alone with a stranger. In spite of all the differences in child-rearing practices in Japan and Israel, the Japanese infants showed similar attachment styles to the Israeli ones. ... The idea that there is a single British or American culture is undoubtedly an oversimplification: in fact, there are several sub-cultures within most large countries. ...

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They drew pictures, closely related to hell, so Berger writes about how sickening it was what we Americans did to the innocent Japanese people who really didn't have much to do with the war. ... Berger writes about how, us Americans we're not given the truth of what was really being planned during the war against Japan. ... Many Americans were outraged when they found out what happened that day, they said it should never happen again. They pitied the Japanese for all the damage we did. ... Why weren't we as American, educated on what we were creating? ...

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A separate group of submarines was to sink any American warships which escaped the Japanese carrier force." ... The purpose of the simultaneous attacks was to destroy the American planes before they could rise to intercept the Japanese." ... The United States immediately answered back by bombing the heart of Japan as they did to America. ... The United States did, however, get involve in some complications with the Japanese, only to protect the future of America. ... America never wanted to actually go to war until the vicious attack from the Japanese. ...

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Instead of entering a war with Japan pre WWII, the United States put oil sanctions against Japan to put a damper on the Japanese from doing repugnant acts to the Chinese. Incidentally, as the Japanese oil supply diminished this left no option to the Japanese but to attack the United States to gain access to our oil. ... The United States was too busy profiting off of weapons and loans from allied countries, while they did not want to waste American lives fighting a war until something happened to our national interest, which was the when Japan attacked the U.S. ... Time after time the we ga...

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Sasaki forms strong ties with Americans years later. ... Tanimoto) writes a letter to an American friend saying that everything that has happened was just a great sacrifice by the Japanese people, towards the goal of World Peace. ... He later becomes a Japanese citizen, changing his name, this creates a positive view on the Japanese people, and the unity there was after the bombing. ... It helped clear things up between the American and Japanese in a certain way; to show the Americans how truly devastating the bomb was, to show the human pain and suffering caused, and tone down the feeling of ...

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Meanwhile, Americans lived under the guise of safety and in relative prosperity. ... The surprise assault by Japanese warplanes destroyed dozens of ships, loaded with crew "all in all, over a thousand servicemen died that day. ... With America finally involved, there was hope for an end to this dreadful conflict. ... Hawaii served as America's midway point between the mainland and Japan, and although the Japanese attempted to wipe out much of those offenses in the Pearl Harbor attacks, the American naval fleet struck back with a vengeance. And in spite of the great victories again...

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Stinnett's book gives proof that American Naval intelligence had broken the Japanese code about 15 months before the attack. ... Stinnett uncovered the truth by reading American naval intelligence radio intercepts of the Japanese transmissions. ... Second, he required American companies to obtain a government license before selling any petroleum products or scrap metal to Japan. For the next 12 months, the administration eagerly granted export permits to American firms selling raw materials to Japan. "Japanese oil tankers and merchant vessels could be seen loading up on scrap iron and...

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