Differences Between China And Pearl Harbor

After a long period of traveling, I finally came back to Tokyo and had time to share what I had seen during this unforgettable and thrilling trip. While I was travelling to China and Pearl Harbour, I discovered that it had quite a few similarities and differences between China, Pearl Harbour, and Japan in terms of culture, environment, politics. As a soldier, I realize that wars had brought these two countries into serious situations. Wars caused China to be colonized by western foreigners, and Japanese in the Pearl Harbor lived in the internment camps. The experience I went through is vulnerable and I cannot wait to share it with the public. Japan, in general, is the greatest developed country by far in terms of economy and political structures …show more content…
My first impression when I arrived Honan province was this area no longer belongs to Chinese government, since lots of foreigners were living there and many of them did not even know how to speak Chinese. During the time period of World War II, Honan province was occupied by many western and Asian countries. According to Erleen Christensen, “in the years between the Japanese invasion of North Honan and the attack on Pearl Harbor, a number of chinese working with the Canadian missionaries had been harassed and killed, and the United Church missionaries stationed north of the Yellow River had left the area” (Christensen 72). Chinese people were in great fear of being killed and not respected by the invaders. The majority land of Honan was occupied by westerners and Japanese, which Chinese people had no power to fight back. In addition, unlike the industrialization in Japan, the living environment was horrible. There was shortage of hospitals, doctors and medical equipments. “...Dr Hansen was the only fully trained doctor on the faculty and thus had no doctor to tend him when he himself became ill” (Christensen 76). In Honan, because of the lack of fully trained doctors, if doctors themselves got sick, there was limited way to be attended to. Therefore, people that lived around this area cannot get proper medical support which can easily lead to the …show more content…
As I stepped on the ground of the Pearl Harbor, I realized that , after the attack of Pearl Harbor by Japan, local people and American soldiers used the word “infamy” when they saw Japanese passed by on the street. “Immediately, ‘infamy’ became American code for ‘Pearl Harbor’, as well as code for Japanese treachery and deceitfulness--- a stab in the back that cried out for retaliation and would never be forgotten” (Dower 4). The attack of the Pearl Harbor became the sign of Japanese joining the World War II. The damages done by the attack for Americans were uncountable. According to Franklin D. Roosevelt, the American President at the time, “‘Yesterday, December 7, 1941, - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan’...the United States had never been more united” (Kershaw 375). Somehow the attack unified the United States in some unexpected way. Also, the Japanese attack initiated the American declaration of war, the Pacific War. The unexpected attack angered the American government, which lead to “the U.S. government to order the removal of more than 100,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry-most of them U.S. citizens-from their Pacific Coast homes to isolated and heavily guarded internment