Attack on Pearl Harbor

During World War II, America was involved in a bombing campaign with Japan. This was because of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor was a United States naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii. The bombing of Pearl Harbor took place on December 7th, 1941. This destroyed 20 American naval vessels, 8 battleships, killed more than 2,500 people, and wounded many others. The United States wanted to avenge Japan, so they used precision bombing. Precision bombing was not successful, and “fire-bombing”…

The post-world war II occupation of Japan by American and allied forces included the censoring of Japanese media from October of 1945 and November of 1949. A few weeks after Japan surrendered to the Allied Forces, General MacArthur's General Headquarters of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers issued a ten-point Press Code for the Japanese news media on September 21st, 1945. The objective of this ten-point Press Code was to establish freedom of the press in Japan and emphasized the…

policy targeting China politically and military in order to obtain their vast materials. China was able to fight Japan with the economical help they received from Germany, The United States, and The Soviet Union. In 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, in which the war merged into the greater conflicts of another tragic war, World War Two. The war ended when Japan surrendered in 1945.…

The women in the film Iron Jawed Angels and Rosie the Riveter was impacted by the “personal is political”. The decision to become an activist or not or to support the politics or not, embracing the fact that many of the women individuals experience issues, problems that are not their fault but oppression. Women always have been informed that they are dumb, unhappy, weak, pregnant, emotional bitch, the slogan suggest that we ladies are in bad circumstances since they encounter gendered…

The bombing of Pearl Harbour on the 7th of December, 1941, was the decisive moment that made the United States of America join World War Two. During and after the Japanese bombed Hawaii, America responded to the attack in different ways many times. The United States responses varied in effectiveness but all ended by turning in U.S. favour. [[EVENTS]] The U.S naval officials placed in Hawaii decided that the best response, at the time, was to fire at the Japanese bomber planes and submarines…

The United States of America became affected in the Second World War after the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbour in 1941. Even though the society had had anti-war attitude since the First World War, Roosevelt recognised the needs for intervention. This vital decision has significantly changed the lives of every citizen. Whether it was abroad or on the home front, each American individual was urged by the government to contribute to the war effort. Because of the protracted war most of the young…

John W Dower, Japanese history professor at the University of San Diego, examines the relationship between the Japanese and the United States during the Pacific War. After the Pearl Harbour attack the American people reacted in panic and rage towards their Japanese enemies by producing slanderous and racist propaganda often depicting them as apes, vermin and rapists. During this time the Japanese became the dominant power in Asia, their goal was to ‘advance south’ which challenged not only…

China Night (1940) is a wartime propaganda film made by Osamu Fushimizu. Widely-known as one of the three “continental goodwill films”, China Night features “a romance between a Japanese man and a young Chinese woman played by Li Xianglan” in an attempt to show “how…cultural differences and misunderstandings between different ethnicities and languages could be overcome” (Li, p. 83). This response will examine the tropes of romance and marriage in China Night to highlight how its depiction of an…

Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Nationalism in Japan’ is an analysis of the concept of the ‘nation’ and ‘nationalism’. Through this beautiful piece of writing, he has cautioned India and other nations that they must not thoughtlessly adopt the Western notion of Nationalism without first realizing the extent to which it can influence their non-Western culture and the cost that may come with it; “Therefore, you cannot with a light heart accept the modern civilization with all its tendencies, methods and…

Case Study 2: WTO Shrimp Turtle Case The growing struggle between international trade and environmental protection in the United States became very apparent in the 1990’s with the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) ruling in the Shrimp/Turtle case. Besides the Asian countries and the United States, the two main parties involved in this case seem to be the conflict between the environmentalist and the free trade advocates. The environmentalists push for products that limit damage done to the…