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? ... Internal pressures that were exuded on the state determined the government and a large extent of the foreign policy followed. ... The people of Japan began to rise up against the government. ... Although Japan has capitalized on engaging globally, the world does not feel welcome in Japan. ...

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The tax payers in Japan shouldered the responsibility of some of the income by taxes while the government used income from government monopolies. ... Even during these times of military build up and action there were large amounts of Japanese lawyers, doctors, writers all wanting to see if China was the way that their Japanese government had described it. ... After the Japanese defeat their leaders from government, business and education were purged from their jobs, in order for them to make room for a new young generation. ... In 1946 Japanese exports totaled two billion yen but by 1949 Ja...

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August 6th was the day the United States government chose to drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima and in one flash the world was introduced to the new atomic age. ... Truman had given Japan an opportunity to surrender, warning them of complete destruction, but the ultimatum that he sent was ignored and the Japanese government ignored it and faced, "utter devastation," (HIST, 426). ... This lead to the inevitable surrendering of Japan. ... There is no way we would be able to tell exactly how many lives were saved just by the fact that we would no longer need to invade Japan but ...

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In the spring of 1945, American forces continued to fight Japan in the Second World War. ... The never-say-die Japanese showed no signs of surrendering any time soon. ... To the U.S. government (Truman) and military, successfully creating a nuclear bomb an important objective. ... Due to Japan's cultural belief that surrendering was dishonorable and worse than death, Japan was expected to keep on fighting until the bitter end. ... Using nuclear weapons to bomb the Japanese would swiftly bring about Japanese surrender. ...

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This was the year in which World War 2 began in the region, during the period of Japanese expansion. ... After Japan had been defeated and the European powers weakened, many Asian and Pacific nations wanted independence. ... Australian forces moved in to combat these problems and other problems such as the lawlessness and government corruption in the Solomon Islands. The Australian government also supports a country's right to self-determination, which means supporting itself rather than being run by outside governments such as the colonial rulers. ... These students then started massive ...

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The main downfall of China is the communist ideology of their government. ... Japan boasts the second largest economy in the world and ranks second in the amount of Internet users, which plays a big role in today's information age. ... Also Japan has an innovative government, which will not allow the country to grow stale or stagnant. All this said, Japan will never equal the manpower or geographical advantages of the United States. ... Does the media create a skepticism of government? ...

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It resulted in the Government collecting $10 billion from the country's, which took them. ... It also captured the rise of Japanese empire; Japanese might have caused the Second World War due to their invasion of China, big places e.g. ... In 1937, Japan also invaded China and occupied several places in China. ... Firstly, they did so to respond to an attack by Japanese on Pearl Harbor and to stop Japanese aggression in the Pacific Ocean (Stouffer et al., 1949). ... To respect the right of all people to choose the type government they want and which they will like to live underneath. ...

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The Japanese announced war on this day. August 6, 1945 amid WWII, USA dropped the first nuclear bomb utilizing B-29 over the Japanese city, Hiroshima. ... Hirohito, head of Japan surrendered and reported the nations surrender on August 15 over the radio. ... Yet, on the other hand this occasion could have been evaded if Japan did not assault Pearl Harbor in 1941. ... Truman (president of USA) was furious about the reparations required and that Poland would have a socialist government. ...

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Soon after V-E Day, the war against Japan had reached its final stage (millercenter.org). An urgent plea to Japan to surrender was rejected. ... Japanese surrender quickly followed (whitehouse.gov). ... Forty years of Japanese rule resulted in Korean knowing little about freedom and politics, and they were always told what to do by the Japanese (Ferrell 110). ... Truman knew that doing nothing in Korea would have a devastating effect on the occupation of Japan, with North Korea having airfields near Japan's major cities (Ferrell 115). ...

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After China became a communist state in 1949, the stability of Japan became of paramount importance to Washington, and Japanese development required access to the markets and raw materials of Southeast Asia. ... But the Diem government still failed to show economic or political progress. ... These actions helped Johnson win the November election, but they did not dissuade the Vietcong from its relentless pressure against the Saigon government. ... Supporting these ground troops was a tremendous air bombardment of North Vietnam that by 1967 surpassed the total tonnage dropped on Germany, It...

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The theory of democratic peace is proven through the government and actions of North Korea. ... It was a boundary set up as a surrender of the Japanese to the Americans on the south side, and the north side of the boundary as the Japanese surrender to Soviet Union. ... Any opposition to the government is prohibited. Several people are routinely arrested and imprisoned, with the government frequently charging them for "subverting the State", "endangering State security" or attempting to "overthrow the "People's socialist government". ... The Internet is heavily censored, most sites that ...

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Government would consult current information to adjust their foreign strategies. ... Medium powers such as Germany, Japan, and China are all far weaker than the United States []" However, the formation of the European Union (EU) is a good example of a coalition of states that try to balance the power. ... U.S Economics Power In late 80's, the United States faced powerful, competitive economies in Japan and Germany. But with the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union and the unanticipated decline of the Japanese and German economies, the United States has inherited a degree of unipolarity n...

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Secondly, the threat of losing petroleum resources is enough to drive governments to drastic measures. ... It takes place mostly on American soil with other parts in Japan and the Pacific Ocean. This piece of tecno-thiller centers around a possible trade war between the U.S. and Japan. ... outlook of Clancy's was seen in real life in the spring of 1995 as a potential trade war with Japan was averted by quick thinking on the part of both governments. ... This is illustrated by an American diplomat and a Japanese diplomat discuss an upcoming treaty. ?...

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Examples of chemical weapons would include the nerve agent Sarin that was deployed by a religious cult in Japan in 1995 to kill and injure the general public, and mustard gas that was used during World War I. ... For example, the war against terrorism in Afghanistan, the Afghan government used artillery against the United States that the United States sold to them when they were fighting the war against Russia; this is referred to as deadly returns. ... Landis in Introducing Global Issues, "when the Indian government detonated its first nuclear explosion in 1974, it symbolically ended the ...

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Following his reelection in 1940, President Roosevelt moved ahead with the dual policy of building up U.S. defenses while giving assistance to those countries resisting the aggression of Germany, Italy, and Japan. ... The Lend-Lease Act authorized the president to transfer to victims of aggression, as much military equipment, clothing, and food as could be produced in the United States and acquired by the government. ... He was convinced that the security of the United States depended on the defeat of Germany, Italy, and Japan. ... During and after the mid 60's a distrust in the American ...

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Also, by a secret agreement with Roosevelt, Stalin promised to declare war on Japan three months after the end of hostilities in Europe. ... Neither leader had suspected that Stalin intended that all Popular Front governments in Europe would be taken over by communists. Roosevelt and Churchill were further inclined to assent to the Yalta agreements because they assumed, mistakenly as it turned out, that Soviet assistance would be sorely needed to defeat the Japanese in the Pacific and Manchuria. ... Churchill and Roosevelt had both agreed that they would work for the establishment of a new ...

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However WWII brought East and West together as the USSR, the USA and Britain fought together against Italy, Japan and Germany. ... Communist governments sprouted all over Eastern Europe. ... The USSR agreed to join the war against Japan after the defeat of Germany, it was agreed Germany would be split into four zones and that war criminals would be hunted down. ... As previously mentioned the Red Army swept through Eastern Europe leaving in its wake pro-Moscow governments. ... Also speeches like those changed the policy of governments, the USA and the USSR both enlarged their defense budgets. ...

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USA decided to use the atomic bomb to defeat Japan in order to save around 500.000 lives of American soldiers that were needed to end the war and in the summer 1945 the USA dropped two bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ... In addition to NATO, USA established security treaties with Japan in 1951,Australiacc, and New Zealand (ANZUS) in 1951, and with Southeast Asian states (SEATO) in 1954. ... First, it makes any government less willing to oppose the prestigious state. ... The second important political function of prestige is a low cost foreign policy that brings compliance by foreign govern...

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Japan ruled Korea from 1905 until the end of World War 2. ... North Korea believed a communist government was the most beneficial government to live under. ... Korea would then most likely replace either Japan or Germany amongst the world's top four economies. ...

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Roosevelt was afraid of losing ally while he was still facing a war with Japan, so he agree to sign the treaty on February 11th, 1945 with USSR and Britain in Yalta. In return, the Soviet agreed to enter the war against Japan after the war in Europe ended. ... The American government did not want to invade a Communist country for fear of retaliation by the Soviets or the Chinese (Healy 3). ...

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Kerensky's Provisional Government in the Russian Revolution of 1917. ... In his rise to power, Stalin held a number of senior administrative posts within the Soviet government and party apparatus, becoming in April 1922 general secretay of the ruling Communist Party, a post which he subsequently built up into the most powerful in the country. ... Russia generally ranked as the poorest nation in Europe before 1914, now industrialised at a phenomenal rate, far surpassing Germany's pace of industrialisation in the 19th century and Japan's earlier in the 20th century. ... Late...

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The U.S. flaunted this technology to Stalin during the war and Stalin of course, passed it off coolly saying "good for you, use it against japan," but anyone can speculate what Stalin had to have thought in his mind. ... The first program implemented for containment was an employee loyalty program which was aimed at finding potential security risks that were in high government positions. It used a variety of techniques to determine if reasonable ground exited for identifying a government employee a potential risk. ... This program actually raised suspicion and formed conspiracies about just ho...

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They are police governments- police state governments" Such claims may be true, but the United States should have respected the diversity of politics. ... Through the use of the Atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan; it provided a definite proof of what America was capable of. ... Much of this technology was retained through the use of western spies located with the government. ... This Revolutionary government caused great concern among the American government, because they had 60 years of investment and trade. The Cuban government was now beginning to question the American industries in Cuba ...

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Truman is the president who gave the order to drop the two nuclear bombs on Japan stating, "They never would have surrendered otherwise" (pg162)." The most disturbing statement in the whole book was when Truman said, "he never had any second thoughts about authorizing the use of nuclear weapons against the Japanese" (pg162), " but I guess it could be a matter of perspective but I would like to believe that it was a long thought out process that was painstaking to make. ... Landry said the president told him "the collection and evaluation of UFO data warranted more intense study and attention...

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The feeling of respite which England held towards the US did not last forever however, as the US would soon rise to a place of glory taking her seat in the annals of history alongside world powers such as England before her, the Roman Empire, the Grecian Empire of old whom the US borrowed her form government. ... With the US naval base in Pearl Harbor being bombed by the Empire of Japan in 1941, the US was once again thrust into global warfare. ... After the fall of Germany and Japan in 1945, the United Nations has been the peacekeeping force that has policed the world ever since. ...

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