Empire of Japan

Written in 1981, Obasan explores the negative treatment Japanese-Canadians experienced in the internment camps during World War Two. Kogawa uses three women (Obasan, Aunt Emily, and Naomi) to illustrate the perspectives that the different generations have in regards to Canadian multiculturalism and how it relates to Japanese-Canadians. In the article “Joy Kogawa’s Obasan: Canadian multiculturalism and Japanese-Canadian Internment”, the author Laura K. Davis examines Obasan through a lens…

In the 17th and 19th century, Japan went through isolation within contact from the outer world. Isolation in Japan had resulted to changes because the Shoguns and Daimyos were unable to trade goods with other countries. So how did Japan influence of those in the outer world? Isolation affected Japan’s worldview because they created it themselves, and were not influenced by other countries outside of Japan. However, modernization of Japan occurred changing the country’s political,…

Japanese infantry were building air bases on the islands of Solomon Islands to further strengthen their control over the region by . The Americans realized that retrieving the Solomon Islands might maim the Japanese forcing them back to Japan and make it easier to reach Japan itself. What caused America…

the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii was where the vast majority of the American fleet units were held and they intended to destroy them. The Japanese troops wanted to destroy the ships so the Pacific Fleet would not interfere with the quests of Japan and they could conquer Southeast Asia without any trouble. Although American intelligence was able to decode Japanese messages and knew that…

World World Two was the most significant turning point for the prevail of Vietnamese Nationalism, because it allowed nationalists to fight for their independence. The French corrupted the Vietnamese sovereignty by colonizing and dividing the nation. Vietnamese Nationalists fought endlessly to try to catch France’s weaknesses and challenge them with every opportunity they got. They were the…

for a hopeful future from recovery and from a negative experience turning into a positive agreement. Through a negative experience it can create a positive agreement: When Japan attacked the U.S. at Pearl Harbor, in Honolulu Hawaii, they involved us in the war and therefore we came back and bombed them twice. When Japan took action to destroy one of our military bases and ships, we nuked them. And after…

many years of collaborative effort, beginning with Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, an American writer and geographer, who would go on to become the first female board member of the National Geographic Society. In 1885, after returning from her first trip to Japan, Scidmore approached the U.S. Army Superintendent of the Office of Public Buildings and Grounds with the idea of planting Sakura trees along the Potomac River waterfront. Her proposal was initially rejected. However, she continued to suggest…

The question explored is “To what extent did Douglas MacArthur contribute in writing of the Japanese constitution?”. To answer the question, the investigation on MacArthur’s role in the occupation of Japan after the Second World War and the construction of the Japanese constitution were carefully examined, using both official documents and secondary sources such as works by historians and biographical articles by journalists. While the work of MacArthur as the lead role of the occupation will be…

Although, the distance between Australia and British is much far than Asia. After British settlement, many ridiculous policies had published which are against non-white people to make Australia become a paradise for white people. But in late 1800s, Japan is the most powerful and advance country in Asia and it also is an ally of Great British. The attitude of the Australian government had been greatly changed on Asia region, they started to mentioned that the“neighbor”are become influential. The…

Chinese nation and those foreign nations that invaded China in the past, especially Japan, so that it could inspire the people to redeem past humiliations and restore national glory”. Additionally, such narratives of Chinese victimhood that “[target] Japan as the national enemy” contributes to the creation of a vivid national collective memory that is rooted in “emotions of self-pity” and “grievances towards Japan” In light of the blatant ideological slant and explicit depiction of an…