During the years of the war in World War II, hundreds of thousands of Japanese-Americans were forced to relocate into Japanese-American relocation camps which had both pro and con arguments. ... In the case of the relocation camps, they regulated Japanese-American activity while stealing away from them their rights to live and their granted freedom. ... Many officials feared that Japanese-Americans would relay information back to their ancestral home, Japan, and thus cause a calamity. ... On the other hand, many arguments for the con side of the Japanese-American relocation camps existed. .....

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One of the effects caused by the impact of American culture in Japan can be seen in the Japanese diet. ... American culture has brought a lot of effects in Japanese culture. First, an American meal is a part of a Japanese meal. ... First, American foods are now a part of the Japanese diet. ... American culture has an effect on Japanese culture. ...

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Sentimental Imperialists: America in Asia This video examines American attitudes toward Asia from 1776 to the present: the merchants, missionaries, and Marines who-however well-intentioned-often saw in Asia and Asians what they wanted to see, rather than the realities of those cultures and peoples. ... Taft later became an American president. American politics affected the islands as Taft and his successors were unwilling to delegate very much authority to the Filipinos. ... Inside Japan Japan's post-war economic growth comes in the context of an increasingly interconnected global e...

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The bomb was dropped on the Japaneses because America wanted to end the war without Soviet Russia getting involved. ... The Japanese were about to give up and surrender to the Americans, but they still wanted to fight which was no other fault but theirs; if the Japanese surrendered earlier, the atomic bomb would not of been launched. ... America had no choice but to drop the bomb because they wanted to end war without any help and in addition to see what reaction Japan would have to the bomb being dropped on civilians. ... At this stage Japan was ruined and had no other option but to surrender...

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The role of the embassy revolves around facilitating Japan-Canadian relations in Japan. ... Canada's imports from Japan totalled C$13 billion. ... Japan's Foreign Direct investment in Canada in 2011 was C$12.8 billion, which came from 330 Japanese subsidiaries and affiliate companies that worked in Canada. ... Influencing many American game designers to created what games we play in Canada today. ... This takes the form of various programs and events in Japan. ...

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A comparison of American and Japanese cultures reveals numerous variations and some similarities. Japanese, as well as American cultures are heavily influenced by the people and the kind of society the people living in any region of either country. For instance, the society in Japan is largely homogeneous and middle class, whereas the American society favors a majority heterogeneous. ... With the above being stated, Japan, and the Japanese society is not as diverse, in terms of subcultures. ... Take for instance the role of the wife, the wife in any Japanese family is expected to ˜look ...

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The country of which I have decided to present inflation in the modern day economy is quite a tough one as Japan has seen deflation for the past couple of years, until current Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe implemented "Abgenomics." ... What is wrong with Japan? ... What Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the leaders he has placed at the Bank of Japan is encouraging inflation through, just to sum up, monetary and fiscal policy, to encourage economic growth, as well as a target with the Bank of Japan to target inflation at 2% together with Quantitative Easing methods-the excessive buying of bon...

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At 2:46 PM on March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake occurred 40 miles east of the Oshika peninsula of Tohoku Japan. ... Some of these waves reached places like the Philippines, South America, and the United States, though the waves were much smaller than those that struck Japan. ... Japan rallied behind slogans like "Ganbaro Nippon!... Ultimately, the government wanted to spin this disaster into a positive cultural and social moment for the people of Japan. However, the government and media were unable to cover up issues in Japan that ran contrary to their messages. ...

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However, Japanese university students do not study. ... To what extent do Japanese college students not study? ... Also, according to the National Survey of Student Engagement data in the United States and the National University Research which is conducted by Center of University Management and Policy Studies at the University of Tokyo, eighty five percent of Japanese university students study less than ten hours per week, though almost sixty percent of American students study more than eleven hours per week. ... A lack of Japanese university students who study well would affect Japanese econ...

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Although Japan posed diminutive threat to the American military, the Japanese refusal to relinquish, the immense allied casualties involved in invading Japan and the inefficiency of a military blockade made the bomb an essential last resort. The Japanese defiance to the American pursuit of Okinawa and Iwo Jima and willingness to die in the face of overwhelming odds had been intense. Their refusal to surrender caused the Americans to use excessive force in order to triumph over the Japanese. ... Japanese pilots would fasten themselves into aircrafts filled with explosives and fly them int...

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Relocation Centers of Japanese-Americans (1942-1943) Throughout the spring and summer of 1942, the United States Government planned and carried out without serious incident, one of the largest controlled migrations in history. This was the migration of almost 110,000 men, women, and children of Japanese decent from their homes on the Pacific coast into ten wartime communities constructed in remote areas between the Sierra-Nevada Mountains and the Mississippi River. ... For a small portion of the Japanese evacuees, these standards were an improvement to their normal quality of living. ... His o...

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"The American economy and profits sprinting ahead, while keeping the Euro area's economies are barely able to maintain a walking peace and Japan is just getting off its knees. ... The theory works like this; America imports more than it exports, the cause of this is the low American savings rate, resulting from the huge level of American household borrowing (read as credit cards, debit cards, and mortgage refinancing) and the federal budget deficit. ... The Economist also points out similar benefits for Japan if it allows the dollar to decline. Unfortunately, economic theory has politi...

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Offensive modernization in Japan was increased in 1868 as part of the Meiji Restoration. ... By 1876, the Japanese eradicated the samurai class as well as the luxuries associated with it. ... The creation of a conscription based army led to Japan's new opposing force that led it to be one of the quickest growing superpowers. ... The increasingly larger companies created the spread of large corporations that marked America's path to industrial success. ... America further advanced their industrial success by implementing Great Britain's scheme of tapping outlying resources. ...

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Panay is one of six small river gunboats that had been built in 1927 to protect American commerce and interest on the Yangtze River in China. ... As Japanese forces approached Nanking in late November 1937, the Chinese foreign Ministry notified American diplomats that they would need to evacuate. ... On December 1st, the American Ambassador Grew notified the Japanese government that the gunboat would embark from Nanking on December 11th along with three Standard Oil barges. ... Because the United States was neutral in the conflict between Japan and China, American flags were rais...

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While the relationships between the Japanese and American citizens in novel are seemingly placid, because of their proximity to each other, Guterson contends that miscegenation is ultimately unattainable due to the cultural biases that keep both races apart. ... As "twenty-four islanders of Japanese ancestry" sit in the rear seats of the courtroom, having "no law compelled them to take only these rear seats" (57), Guterson illustrates how the American sentiment of the Japanese as second-class citizens creates tension and division. Cultural biases like those of fisherman Dale Middleton, who ...

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PEOPLE: FDR - President during WWII Truman - President who decided to drop atomic bombs on Japan Churchill - British Prime Minister Eisenhower - Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied troops in D-Day MacArthur - General who returns to Philippians - Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific Rommel - General in charge of Afrika Korps Hitler - poorly educated Austrian; joined German workers party, became leader, changed name to Nazi; became Dictator of Germany Mussolini - in Fascist Party; declared himself Dictator of Italy Tojo - Dictator of Japan Stalin - Dictator of USSR F...

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Singapore and Malaysia contain a rich racial mix, while Korea and Japan are very homogeneous societies. ... Japan shifted from the role of a dependent to a manufacturing and financial powerhouse. ... (Graph 7.4, P.279) Additionally, Japan created a lucrative automobile industry, along with a steel industry that rivaled and surpassed the American industry and electronics. ... Their annual percentages were even greater than America's annual GDP percent growth for those equivalent years. ... In contrast to Korea, Japan, Malaysia, and Singapore, those nations that did not develop signific...

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During World War II, many groups of Americans, including Mexican Americans, African Americans, and Japanese Americans were mistreated during the war. ... The Japanese Americans were shipped off to interment camps because apparently they were capable of "a wave of organized sabotage." In response to the internment of the Japanese, Attorney General Earl Warren stated, "...in time of war every citizen must give up some of his normal rights," which suggests that these acts of aggression were only due to the wartime atmosphere, but events like the race riots after World War I, treatment of the Ch...

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Asian Americans went through crippling acts of inequality that put America's wartime ethics into question. The Japanese bombing of pearl harbor that pushed America into WW II brought a large persecution of Asian Americans along with it. Many Japanese were involuntarily moved to internment camps during the war to lessen the fear of a Japanese threat on the homefront. This led to many having speculation whether the placing of the japanese in internment camps was constitutional or not, and if the U.S had any good reason to place the Japanese in internment camps (Doc 4). The government, while...

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Many Asians have been misrepresented in American Media. ... In American history, in the last three wars (WWII, the Korean War and Vietnam War) the enemies of America were all Asians. ... Images of Asians as the enemy are deeply embedded into American pop culture and consciousness, sustained by Hollywood movies like Fu Manchu or Year of the Dragon, and manipulated by political leaders like U.S congressmen who propose to solve the trade imbalance with Japan by chartering the Enola Gay (the airplane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima)(A.L 97). Today's economic powers consist of Asi...

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Therefore, an American traveling to Japan might be considered impolite if he ignores this rule. ... But now, due to an increasingly amount of intercultural business, some American companies require for their employees to have a good knowledge in languages such as Japanese, German, Italian . ...

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The Korean War 1950-1953 was the first proxy conflict of the Cold War costing 5 million lives, 54,000 of which were American soldiers, yet it has often been described as America's, "forgotten war." ... However, the Korean conflict was particularly central to American policy and indeed world security as it outlined the American policy of containment from NSC 68, and demonstrated that America, to quote President Truman that America was committed to, "the cause for a just and peaceful world order through the United Nations.... " Furthermore, by acting in Korea this would be the f...

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From 1900 to 1945, America went from the top of the world, to the bottom, and back up again. ... America may have shined throughout history as the light of democracy and liberty in the world, however, that does not give us the right to assert our economic, cultural, or political influence on the world, nor serve as a global pseudo police force. ... However, it is warranted for America to become involved with international conflict if, and only if, it actually impacts us as well, or has the potential to do so. ... Much like how the British controlled America in the early years of our prospering...

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Navy had already destroyed a majority of Japan's surface ships, and were using systematic attacking systems with B-29 bombers to completely destroy Japanese cities, killing and injuring thousands of innocent civilians. The effects of the War and the attacks on Japan critically made the innocent citizens of Japan suffer. ... Japan refusing to surrender at this time is what caused the United States to use a bomb that would change history forever. On August 6th, a single American plane flew over, and dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, destroying nearly 60% of the city. ... There were alr...

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More than half of the early European immigrants had arrived as indentured servants, who worked for a period of years without wages in exchange for their passage to and upkeep in America. Immigrants to colonial America were welcomed because of an acute need for labor. ... Attempts to exclude Japanese were more subtle and complicated because of Japan's growing industrial and military power. In 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt worked out an informal understanding with Japan, the so-called "Gentlemen's Agreement," whereby Japan would voluntarily curb the issuance of passports...

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