Imperial Japanese Navy

METHODS The primary method of research that is utilized in this paper is a historical analysis. The topic at hand is reparations improving the lives of African Americans, which needs much historical background. In this paper, German-Israeli and Japanese reparations set the precedent for the current topic of African American reparations. African Americans have yet to receive any reparations for slavery so the only way to estimate the impact of reparations can be seen. Since reparations have yet…

Roosevelt had to address two challenges in his Pearl Harbor Address. Roosevelt had to address the sudden, planned hostility by Japan and the doubt of domestic security for America. In his address Roosevelt spoke of the many predetermined attacks of the Japanese stating: Yesterday,…

life. But neither of those literacies affected me in the same way that my third language did. At 15 years old, I became obsessed with the Japanese language. I remember picking up a self-teaching book at Chapters and devouring it chapter by chapter, and the more I knew, the more I craved to know more. However, it was never my plan to learn to write in Japanese. I found their writing system beautiful, to be sure; but not to the point of dedicating myself to learning over two thousand characters…

disastrous history is about “military comfort women” during World War Two when Korea was under Japanese rule. In fact, a ‘comfort woman’ is an inappropriate word for the female victims; a ‘sex slave’ is the correct term. Although the sex slave is the right term, people use the ‘comfort women’ because it is well known by many people and sounds smoother than the sex slave. When Korea was under Japanese rule,…

I find myself watching anime and/or Japanese movies and reading manga and I pick up on the language and I know few phrases and greetings from these things. I decided to actually learn Japanese by myself during middle school. I created note cards, I have designated notebooks, I subscribed to Youtube channels which taught Japanese and how to read and write. Aside from the language, I also learned about the culture such as their celebrations and holidays. Japanese culture is a beautiful art that I…

This is what happened during World War II after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. The United States’ citizens and government officials were suspicious of the Japanese-Americans being disloyal to their country. This fear became the reason many people lived in military-style barracks surrounded by barbed wire fences and guards at an internment camp (Interview 2). What was life like to live there for the duration of the war? How did the Japanese-Americans feel? This topic was of interest to me…

The Japanese American Internment was forced relocation. Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a presidential proclamation which required the immigrants from other World War II countries to register with the Department of Justice (Staff, 2009). For example, Italy, Germany, Japan. Once registered, there was a Certificate of Identification for Aliens of Enemy Nationality (Staff, 2009). This was said to be a follow up of the Alien Registration Act of 1940 (Staff, 2009). We will talk about executive order,…

explored through visual World War II propaganda. Often, Americans would be portrayed as idiotic and careless while the Japanese soldiers would be strong, highlighted with astonishing qualities, and smart when compared to the American idiot portrayed. This was all in an effort to dehumanize Americans while portraying pride in a Japanese nationalist mindset. “The media was making the Japanese feel as though they are superior to the United States.” Superior in tactics, ability, and in unity. This…

medicine etc. But one situation that the United States was involved which was considered a grave mistake were the Japanese internment camps. These were the camps that the Japanese or people thought to be Japanese were put into after the bombing of pearl harbor by the Japanese. After this the Japanese were considered the enemy and a threat to the United States simply for being Japanese or looking like one. Now we look back on the time of World War 2 and we can only imagine how these innocent…

Secondly, the internment of the Japanese Americans subjects civilians, men, mothers, women, children, and elderly, American citizens to conditions that were more suitable for soldiers and war criminals. Close to 120,000 people were kept in ten camps, that means around 11,000 people a camp. And they detained men, women, and children. Farewell to Manzanar, an autobiography of Jeanne Wakatsuki, someone who grew up in the camps details the conditions that the Japanese American internees were kept in…