Sometimes, rich and powerful nations need to go to war, and sometimes those wars are unpopular. In 1941, the United States went to war with Japan, and while it's unlikely that will ever be the case again, the results of having vehicle manufacturing outsourced to Japan in 1941, as would likely be the case if the big three U.S. makers were allowed to implode, World War II might have ended far differently. ... The first casualties of recession are debtors, and like the Mortgage industry, the Auto industry depends on people paying down the notes that they finance. ...

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Sometimes, rich and powerful nations need to go to war, and sometimes those wars are unpopular. In 1941, the United States went to war with Japan, and while it's unlikely that will ever be the case again, the results of having vehicle manufacturing outsourced to Japan in 1941, as would likely be the case if the big three U.S. makers were allowed to implode, World War II might have ended far differently. ... The first casualties of recession are debtors, and like the Mortgage industry, the Auto industry depends on people paying down the notes that they finance. ...

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Leaving an impact of epic proportions, the bombs of The Manhattan Project have left scars on Japan and the world to this very day. ... Never before had any nation almost completely incinerated an opposing nation, and never before had the United States fully showed the world the extent of its abilities. ... [It] looked like a pot of bubbling tar. [ ] The war was over.... ... Shortly after, on August 14, 1945, Japan finally surrendered, and World War II came to a close. ... He wrote in his diary: We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world. ...

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The American financiers were the most powerful in the world because the Entente countries depended on loans from the USA to fund their war effort. ... In addition many countries were yet to recover from the First World War. ... Another problem caused by the First World War was that of inflation. ... The situation in Germany was made worse because of the reparations they had to pay as a consequence for having started World War I. ... The consequences of the depression were so serve in some countries especially Germany that hostile political parties gained power which in turn led to the outbreak...

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More importantly, it was a major center for the manufacture of war materials before and during World War II. ... It is almost as if they had invented a world of fantasy. But this world of fantasy was really a world of deception. ... Even the radio broadcasters declared that Japan was winning the war. But the Japanese government lived in a world of reality where an attack by the US was very possible. ...

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The scale of Japan's growth is easy to demonstrate but understanding the reason is much more difficult, especially when this country was completely destroyed after the Second World War. The end of the Pacific War in 1945, should have economically and psychologically spelled doom for Japan. "By the end of the Pacific War the volume of Japan's industrial production was less than thirty per cent of her output in 1936. ... The total estimate of damage caused by the Pacific War to the Japanese General Wealth was 65 302 million Yen. ... Overall, the Japanese economy was the highest growth ...

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To begin, World War II and the post war reconstruction phase had a huge impact on foreign direct investment (FDI) restrictions imposed on foreign companies. In their paper, The Extent and History of Foreign Direct Investment in Japan, Ralph Paprzycki and Kyoji Fukao (2005) state that after the defeat of Japan in World War II, the American Occupation authorities imposed major FDI restrictions fearing that FDI would cause complications during the reconstruction process. ... As alluded to earlier, Walmart, the world's largest retailer, can bring competition to Japan, where local retailers ca...

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From the dohyo matsuri (ring consecration ceremony) that takes place on the day before a sumo tournament, to the ganbai uchiwa ("war" fan) wielded by the gyoji (referees), to the tsuna (white rope-like belt) worn by the yokozuna (Grand Champions), to the purification ritual of spraying salt on the ring before each bout - the rich body of symbols in sumo are drawn from and represent pre-modern Japan. ...

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