For the United States government, the logic behind the new order was simple. ... The Japanese- Americans were at the mercy of the United States government for seemingly doing nothing wrong, besides being of Japanese decent (Life in Japanese Internment Camps). ... The Evacuation Claims act was the first of a series of efforts by the US government to rectify the losses and injustices of the WWII Internment and resulted in $37 million of reparations given back to the Japanese-American internees (Exploring the Japanese American Internment). Over the next several decades, the dedicated work of t...

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This has prompted international governments to create trade, social, and security connections with one another. ... It was at that time when the Japanese government leased the Senkakus to a Japanese businessman, Tatsuhiro Koga, who established a fish-processing plant that employed 200 workers (Scoville, 2015). ... The war torn history of Japan and China is a large part of why the two governments refused to surrender. ... The Senkaku islands have become a symbol of national pride for both the Japanese and Chinese people, a fact citizens of both countries are not willing to let their governments...

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Although Jeanne's family had some typical Japanese traditions, none of the children spoke any Japanese. ... Prior to being sent to actual camps, Japanese Americans were forced to live in specific communities which were chosen by the U.S. government. ... The Wakatsuki's and other Japanese Americans had now become a threat to the nation in the minds of the government. ... The U.S. government and voice of mainstream white America had taken away Jeanne's normal American life in a matter of days. ... Her father was taken to prison on charges based solely on racist accusations from th...

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Before 1941, the Japanese had been behaving very imperialistically. ... In July of 1941, the Japanese Empire invaded the remainder of French Indochina. ... (Revolutionary) Simply put, the western empires and the Japanese empires crashed in the Pacific and Japan was the first to strike; the United States had an empire that Japan wanted. However, government officials should have foreseen this problem and prepared one of the furthest and most diplomatically important military bases further against the possibility of Japanese aggression. ... Another sign was that the Japanese attack was not th...

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Those countries had non-democratic governments, they were rearming, and they were not being peaceful. ... By now, Japan had attacked Manchuria, China and many islands surrounding Japan. ... The US was right; Japan planned to attack America. ... The Japanese were very cruel to the people in the places the Japanese attacked. ... He means that other forms of government and Nazism could not stand togethe...

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However, the government has not considered other important factors that make a terrorist. ... The government has used racial profiling liberally and irresponsibly. ... The case of John Walker Lindh is why Davis believes the government should focus on behavior, not race. ... Davis points out something the government may have overlooked: terrorists are not stupid. ... The government has also used racial profiling to discriminate against Middle Eastern people. ...

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The main issues discussed were the frontiers of a postwar Poland and its future government. ... Some members of the exile government in London to be integrated into the communist Lublin government Stalin promised to hold free elections at the end of hostilities The main issue surrounding this provisional Polish government at the Yalta Conference was its status in determining the country's political future The Soviet Union had occupied parts of Poland ever since 1944. As the Russians pushed the Germans out of Poland they backed the establishment of a communist government in Lublin, ...

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Second, the development of Korean People's Committees following their liberation from Japanese rule, and the different treatment of these committees in the North and in the South. ... The people of Korea had suffered extreme duress and hardships while the Japanese had occupied their country. ... When the Japanese tightened their rule in the 1920's, the people began to migrate into Manchuria, China, and the U.S.S.R. ... These resistance groups were largely wiped out by the Japanese in the brutal "annihilation campaigns" of the 1930's (Armstrong 2003:21). ... Hodge, the comman...

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But, the Chinese government is of the opinion if China is only building up their merchant fleet then what is there to worry about? ... 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...

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On December 7, 1941, the Japanese led their first attack on American soil by bombing the naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ... Despite this, he still faced criticism for increased government spending and unbalanced budgets. ... Following this, General Tojo Hideki became Japan's leader in mid-October of that same year. ... The first wave of the Japanese fleet had left behind only 6 aircraft carriers. ... When Saddam made it publicly clear that he was not going to leave, Bush immediately ordered the invasion of Iraq, called Operation Iraqi freedom, to look for nuclear weapons and to stabi...

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Ranging from th e times of the Chinese in California to the migration of Japanese and Korean workers on the sugar plantations in Hawaii, all faced various forms of racism and dealt with individual problems in their own fashions. ... Through their unyielding persistence to strive for a better life and despite the government and the odds that were against them, they continued to be strong. ... Soon the people who were against the Chinese persuaded the executive branch of the federal government to change the Burlingame Treaty, which allowed America to "regulate, limit or suspend" but not "prohi...

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This contorts their perception of what a stable, autonomous government looks like. ... The current government is seen by many Iraqis as little more than puppet government controlled by the United States and its allies. According to Day (2006), the primary difficulty in achieving national unity is finding the balance between local governmental power in the hands of tribal and religious groups and the central government. ... Therefore, they have little expectation of a fair and successful democratic government. ... This will make the transition to a democratic government difficult because firs...

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The Importance and Effects of U.S. Involvement in World War I and II Only about two hundred years old, the United States had developed into a major world power by the beginning of the 20th Century. The 1900's marked the beginning of a drastic change in the economy, communications and technologie...

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Reef Destruction and Conservation Efforts Recent government studies have shown that coral reefs and marine fish are in great danger. ... Such as in Japan's reef there is a chemical called kainac acid, which is used as a diagnostic chemical used to investigate Huntington's chorea, a rare but fatal disease of the nervous system (Aldridge 102). Japan's coast is one of the most studied coral coasts in the world. ...

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During World War II the Japanese military was involved in the trafficking of Asian women. ... Comfort women were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Imperial Army. ... The Japanese authorities justify their actions by saying that such facilities would help soldiers from committing random sexual violence toward women of occupied territories. ... What is beyond belief is the fact that these camp-towns were condoned and established by not only the Korean government but by the American government as well. ... The majority of their earnings are given to the government. ...

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In this new multicultural age American citizens could be of Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Haitian, Russian, Bosnian, Native American, or Indian ethnic descent. ... The following observation by a young professional businessman in China can be used to demonstrate our argument: It was reported that the Japanese made color TV sets dominated the imported TV set market in China during the period of later 1980s to the 1990s. ...

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World War I, a war fought to "destroy the axis of evil" and to resolve conflicts between belligerent countries, brought nothing but turmoil and numerous dilemmas to the warring nations; politically and economically. Immediately after the war, many people thought the war had made a safe environment for democracy in all countries. Peace was thought to have been restored among the world. People's views of the world were tainted and many nations began to struggle. In the years following the end of World War I, Americans found themselves in an era, known as the "Roaring Twenties," where the...

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My standpoint will be based on the contemporary events China is facing, such as its belligerence towards Japan over a dispute of territory, and will also be based on historical evidence of countries in similar positions of China as a rising power that have resulted in armed conflicts. I stand firmly to believe, through the eyes of a realist, the aggression of the Chinese government towards neighboring states will push the United States to intervene. ... In the late 20th century, China's participation in international governmental organizations had doubled, while at the same time its membe...

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In his farewell address, outgoing President George Washington famously stated that, "The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordina...

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I do not know if the situations are exactly comparable or not, but it reminded me very much of the current relationship of the Native Americans in the U.S. and their feelings toward the government. ... In this century the most significant immigrants have been Japanese. ... Besides the original Portuguese settlers, other significant ethnic groups include Africans, Germans, Italians, and Japanese. ...

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Russia's government has announced that it intends to liberalize liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports starting in January 2014, breaking Gazprom's absolute export monopoly. ... Today the two resources account for over 70% of all exports and also provide government as well as private jobs for individuals living in the area. ...

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Is War Necessary? There are many reasons why a country or several countries could go to war. Some of these reasons are just, however many of them are not. There are many movies made illustrating many different aspects of American wars, good and bad. The American Revolution was mainly a politica...

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After W.W.II, even though the Soviet Union had a strong military, it was encircled by hostile capitalist governments and felt that if communism was to remain strong, it needed to form an alliance with other communist countries. ... Japan had ruled Korea from 1910 until August of 1945 at the end of W.W.II. Japanese troops north of the 38th Parallel surrendered to the Soviets , while the Japanese troops south of the parallel surrendered to the U.S. ... President Truman remarked that "what the communists, the North Koreans, were doing was nothing new...Hitler and Mussolini and the Japa...

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In absorbing Guam as U.S. territory, the Federal government had not initially intended for the people of Guam to obtain U.S. citizenship. ... Guam has been colonized by three empires starting in the 1500's with Spain, Japanese occupation during World War Two, and now the United States. ... Congress, Guamanians were given the privilege of local government. ... It is Important to note that the CNMI entered into this relationship at will, in negotiation with the United States Government. One would think that the Chamorro people of the CNMI and the United States government would have ...

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Their conviction that they were not equals with the United States in the Union was strengthened when the American government directly interfered with a revolution in Chile in 1891 and a trade dispute in Brazil in 1893. ... The company, which also had large interests in Cuba and Colombia, came to exert great influence upon the policies of the American government towards the so-called "banana republics" in Latin America. ... Perry opened Japan to American trade in 1853, American businessmen had taken an increasing interest in the commerce of the Pacific. ... But in 1889 the Germans, who also ...

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