Japan however began their military build up well before China. ... The Japanese Navy consisted of twenty eight ships. When Chinese and Japanese soldiers met in Korea Chinas forced had amassed to 350,000 men and seventy one ships (Iriye 14, 15) Even though China outnumbered Japan, Japan was still able to overcome Chinese forces. ... In 1946 Japanese exports totaled two billion yen but by 1949 Japanese exports increased from two billion to 170 billion yen (Iriye, 94). 1949 saw a change in the way that Japan exported its goods, in 1946 more than half of Japanese goods were being sent to Ameri...

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It is also mentioned that Asian Americans are not represented that well and much. ... What this video showed me is that Asian Americans still face stereotypes today. ... No matter what Asian Americans still get ask what their ethnicity is whether they are Japanese, Chinese, Korean, or Filipino. ... Another topic what astonished me in this video is when one individual wanted to know more about his Japanese side by strongly wanting to learn Japanese and even visit Japan. ... Reason why is because the more he looks into Japanese history and culture, the less appealing it has become for him and c...

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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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Confucianism in Japan and China The Japanese people had little civilization of their own until, during the fourth century AD, they began to have contact with the Chinese. ... During the first and second century AD, Japan had almost no cultural and political development in comparison with China. Japan was an agrarian society and its people lived together in tribes. ... The Japanese imported much of the Chinese civilization. ... Soon Japan sent missions to China to develop good relations and to bring back Chinese literature and philosophy. ...

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Chinese and Japanese religion, have a lot of history behind them. ... Not only is Buddhism a popular religion in China, but as well in the Unites States of America, Canada, Tibet, and also Japan. In the United States of America, Buddhist came to North America by way of Chinese and Japanese immigrants. ... Japan encounters Buddhism differently. ... Not necessarily in the United States of America, but in other countries. ...

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Asian Americans are simply immigrants from eastern countries such as China and Japan who have survived generations of prosecution and rejection. ... Soon, despite American differences, the number of Asian American immigrants rapidly grew in the United States. ... Most people think that all of the Asian Americans are from China or Japan. ... Asian Americans have brought there religion practices with them, which allow Americans to share a new cultural experience. ... Other languages spoken by Asian Americans are Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese. ...

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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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Fukuzawa was determined that Japan should benefit from the best of Western technological and economic achievements, and so embarked on a conscious programme to adopt into the Japanese context key elements of European and America life. During that period, Eurocentrism has a great impact on Fukuzawa and Japan. ... First, Fukuzawa used Europe as a standard that Japan should follow because he wanted Japan to truly become part of the civilized world of the West. ... Therefore, he felt that Japan should keep the traditional Eastern relgion. ... Fukuzawa was one of the first experts on the West in mo...

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-Japanese, and the Japanese-Sino relationships could be dramatically impaired. ... After World War II, all territory under the Treaty of Shimonoseki was transferred to the Treaty of San Francisco, giving control to American forces. The Senkaku islands were then used as an American bomb-testing site throughout the mid twentieth century. ... Even though China and Japan have roughly the same amount of coastline, the archipelago of Japan enjoys five times more EEZs than China ("Sino-Japanese", 2012). ... Japan's decision sparked massive protests and anti-Japanese demonstrations thro...

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The process started with Filipino, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Indian. ... Japanese migrants started in 1885 and the demanded of Japanese labors was increased. There were 200,000 Japanese in Hawaii and 180,00 in the U.S.A. ... The Japanese farmers had less land for the farming and so that only elder son stayed in Japan to take care of the land, and younger son came to U.S.A. and Hawaii for labor. ... Only the Japanese American community is decline among the Asian groups. ...

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When Buddhism was introduced to Japan, the ruler of Paekche presented the Japanese imperial court with a bronze image of Shakyamuni (The Buddha), banners, and several manuscripts of Buddhist scriptures. ... He did, however, establish and spread Japanese Buddhism through his devotion of the ideology. Because of this, he is considered the real founder of Japanese Buddhism, and opened the door for Zen Buddhism to appear later in Japanese history. It was during this later time in Japan's history that sects of Zen, Ch"an's Japanese counterpart, had been transplanted into the country. ...

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In 1894-5 even Japan joined in the humiliation of China when it defeated China in the Sino-Japanese War. ... Unlike China, Japanese society was not static. ... Japan shared China's distrust of the West. ... This isolation was brought to an end in 1853 with the arrival of the American Commodore Perry who demanded a positive response to his request for concessions. ... Japan edged towards civil war. ...

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But overall the Japanese tested anyone they could get their hands on which also included Russian, Korean, Mongolian, Pacific Islander, Southeast Asian, and even a few American victims but of all the thousands of POW's taken to Unit 731, not a single prisoner survived (Keiichi). ... These experiments were performed to develop new vaccines or treatments for medical problems the Japanese army faced. ... (Keiichi) Using their success in germ warfare, the Japanese took action and began using it against the United States. ... That's when they thought of the plan "Operation Cherry Blossom...

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From China, tattooing spread to Japan. In Japan they also used tattoos to mark criminals using a Chinese character that meant dog (midre). ... From Japan, tattoos spread to the Philippines and Pacific Islands. ... Chatham Square in New York City became the birthplace of American style tattooing. ... Tattooing came to America and was used by the Mayans, Incas, and Aztecs. ...

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This island landmass conflict holds the greatest cause for America getting into conflict with China. Under the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation "the islands are included within the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan, meaning that a defense of the islands by Japan would require the United States to come to Japan's aid " ("Senkaku Islands Dispute "). ... The incident in 2012 nearly caused a war between China and Japan. A fishing boat went into the area controlled by the Japanese and rammed a Japanese Coast Guard Vessel, nearly sinking the boat. Though ...

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They were instrumental in the Japanese "economic miracle" by the permitting of Japanese goods into the American market. It began a major plan for economic aid to Japan. Japanese soon acquired global influence through economic expansion. Although the U.S. remained the major market for Japanese exports, Japanese investors and exporters became the most important foreign business interests in Southeast Asia. ... I think the U.S was very effective in achieving their goals in Japan. ...

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Today, China is not nearly as rich as Japan is because of there resistance to westernization. ... For example, Japan adopted the same social triangle of hierarchy. ... Finally, one might think that the European countries and America did a lot for East Asian industry, and that is correct, but a lot of people don't realize how much East Asia and its Confucian values influenced Americans and Europeans. One of America's most important values is freedom; the freedom to say what you please, to practice the religion of your choice, and to get a good education. These values are what made A...

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The plan was leaked and the plan was abandoned. 1896: Kidnapping Sun escaped from the police out of Japan yet while he was in London, during 1986. ... Economic and political exploitation of China by various Western powers and Japan and humiliating military defeats inflicted by Great Britain in the Opium Wars (1839-1842, 1856-1860) and by Japan in the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) were the main causes of Chinese resentment. ... A relief expedition consisting of British, French, Japanese, Russian, German, and American troops relieved the besieged quarter and occupied Beijing on August 1...

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The population of "the West," which includes Western Europe, North America, and Asian capitalist economies, such as Japan, Singapore, and South Korea, has remained flat since the latter half of the 20th century, with some populations, such as Japan's, experiencing a steady decrease. ...

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Europe is an ally; so is Japan. ... In American eyes, only China looms as a likely future rival. ... For over a century the national interests of China have been reflected in the following foreign policy objectives of communist China: (a) to preserve the national territory from foreign annexation or intrusion; (b) To regain what had been lost through foreign interventions; (c) To repel from her borders any threatening or hostile military presence, be it Russian, Japanese, America or any of her power; and (d) To regain for China the status of a world power commensurate with the greatness o...

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In China, the laughing Buddha is called Budai and Hotei in Japan. ... In America, you can see the laughing Buddha when you visit the Asian markets. ... This is why Asians in North America want to have these statues in their stores and even homes to seek wealth and blessings from them. In the Japanese homes having the laughing Buddha is a custom. ... Earlier we indicated that there is a group of the Asians of about 2000 people in the America who were immigrants that were evading the Vietnam War. ...

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The church becomes a place where they can selectively assimilate into American society while simultaneously preserving Chinese values and culture. Religion, spirituality, and faith have always been important to Asian American communities, as they were for many generations before them. But within the diversity of the Asian American community, diversity exists in religious beliefs and practices. In Asia, these various forms of spirituality and faith help Asian Americans to deal with the upheavals of immigration, adapting to a new country, and other difficult personal and social transformation...

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These days, majority of countries now accepted the form of democracy. Only few countries, including China, and North Korea, have absolute despot or group of powerful people. America has been the model of democracy for most of the European, and Asian countries. But as the culture of Asia and western ...

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When the Boxer Protocol was enforced the Manchu had to agree to even more foreign demands and when they failed to intervene in the Russo-Japanese war, anti-Manchu and anti-foreign feeling increased. ... The basis of this new strategy includes a strengthening of cold war-era bilateral military alliances in with the development of a Theater-based Missile Defense system that would cover South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. ... The alleged spy scandals and accusations of theft of American nuclear secrets are also factors. ... President Bush, who entered office pledging to take a tougher stand toward Ch...

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The Joy Luck Club "Hey, Sabrina, are you Japanese or Chinese?" ... Her reply, as it seems to be for many minority groups, is, "Neither, I'm Chinese-American." ... (p. 289) Living in America, it was easy for Waverly to accept American circumstances, to grow up as any other American citizen. ... She tried to teach her Chinese-American daughter "How to obey parents and listen to your mother's mind. ... They have become American not only in their speech, but also in their thoughts, actions and lifestyles. ...

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