The Americans were not pleased with Japan's progressively aggressive defiance towards China in 1937. ... American and Japan were in negotiation for months, but neither nation refused to make any changes, which made conflict inevitable. ... America never thought that Japan would start a war with an attack on American soil. ... If they accomplished this, the Americans would be unable to retaliate as Japan's military spread across the South Pacific. ... The Japanese destroyed 18 American ships, 300 planes and 2,500 American soldiers and citizens died with just as many injured in the at...

• Word Count: 1943
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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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The innocent Japanese Americans were wrongly placed into these camps and the actions taken by the United States government put heavy burdens on the Japanese Americans for years to come. The United States had a Japanese American population of 126,947 by 1940 (Broom 8). ... After the attacks by the Japanese, the government had viewed the Japanese Americans as a threat to the nation's security. ... There was racism still directed towards Japanese by American racists. ... The problem was that there were fewer Japanese Americans in the east and many Japanese Americans wanted to live in the are...

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If Japan wasn't stopped, America would have been in serious danger. ... Roosevelt authorized Japanese-American internment. ... About 100,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese who lived along the Pacific coast of the United States were moved to camps called "War Relocation Camps," in the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. ... Although I believe internment of the Japanese was legally wrong and unfair, I think it was necessary for the protection of America. ... " WW2 had changed the image of the Japanese to Americans greatly. ...

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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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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. ...

• Word Count: 1505
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Racism in America was also somewhat prominent. ... Americans were depicted in a similar manner by the Japanese cartoonists. ... One of the more famous examples of racism was the internment of Japanese Americans. ... The Japanese-Americans were euphemistically called "evacuees," but in reality they were prisoners in relocation camps. ... Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 citing that the relocation of Japanese-Americans was to protect against espionage and sabotage. ...

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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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The 442nd Regimental Combat Team Imagine this: You are a Japanese American living in the United States. ... After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Americans faced quite harsh racism. ... This act by the American government shows that they did not trust the Japanese. ... These Japanese Americans were despised so much that Americans often destroyed their property. ... On the other hand, the addition of the Japanese Americans could have given U.S. the disadvantage and Japan the advantage. ...

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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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This only served to increase American's hatred toward the Japanese. ... Finally, the U.S. could focus its energies and power to quickly defeat the Japanese with minimal loss of American lives. ... The Americans continued massive conventional bombings. American forces prepared 6 million leaflets to drop on Japanese cities. ... While doing my research I found that there are no clear answers to the question of why America decided to use the atomic bombs against Japan. ...

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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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The United States had been bombing Japan for months, and the Japanese people were already becoming weak from nine months of air attacks. ... Yet, over four years after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and after nearly a year of the U.S. consistently performing air attacks on Japan, the United States decided that two atomic bombs would be dropped on the Japanese people. Not just the Japanese army, but the Japanese people; women, children, men, animals, homes, etc...On March 9th thru the 10th, 300 American bombers feverishly bombed Tokyo, Japan. ... He stated that he never "entertained any ...

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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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The Americans could not believe that the Japanese had the nerve to bomb their military base, and over the next four years, the Americans secretly sought a way of revenge. ... If the Americans ever followed the Japanese back to Japan, only under the condition of one last battle were the Japanese generals going to consider negotiating an honorable surrender. ... These invasions included 2.5 million American troops and the terms if these invasions were reluctantly agreed to and signed by the president. Even though Truman had signed these documents, inside he felt that too many American men ...

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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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This thinking might stand true with today's technology but during the war time of the Bombing of Japan this was not the case. Many military documents surfaced after the bombing showing that we, the United States of America, did not have to go to the extreme in making Japan surrender. ... These tests were conducted on July 16, 1945, not even a month before they were to be used on Japan. ... President Harry Truman, known for electing to use the new and deadly weapon, claimed that dropping the Atomic bomb would save over 100,000 American lives. ... General Groves and Admiral Purnell, two sen...

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The Japanese Navy was at the bottom of the sea and so was most of the merchant marine" (Yoshihara, 1939).The Japanese had no exports, no foreign trade, and inflation destroyed all of Japan's private savings. ... The Japanese are very protective of their culture. ... Japan's striving for purity is very different form a North American idea of open doors and diversity as strength. ... Even though Japanese culture had a lot of influence by others, Japanese still use their own culture to develop their management system. One of the Japanese traditional values is the samurai. ...

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In the spring of 1945, American forces continued to fight Japan in the Second World War. ... America had been motivated to build a nuclear weapon to use in case Germany built their own. The Americans believed that Germany had the resources and ability to build a nuclear weapon. ... As you can see, Truman decided to drop the atomic bomb not only because he wished to swiftly end the war in Japan, he also wanted to 'flex America's muscle' and power to Stalin, with the objective being that he would be wary of America's power and not attempt to conquer post-Nazi Europe.  .....

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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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