Japanese American internment

them to confront the past and cracks the ice of their reserve” (Harris). All the hatred toward Asian Americans is revived when the citizens of Amity Harbor forcefully sit through the three-day trial of Kabuo Miyamoto, a man falsely accused of killing his white…

All members of the faculty, our new students, good afternoon! On behalf of the faculty and students from the School of Translation Studies, I’d like to extend a warm welcome to all new faces here. Now please allow me to share with you the expectation from the school faculty for all freshmen. My first point is about the genuine purpose of education in university. What’s the definition of uni? Our schoolmaster Mr. 戚万学 had talked about his own understanding of university in this year’s…

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…

In the December of 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army marched into China’s capital city, Nanking, and murdered 300,00 out of 60,000 civilians and soldiers (HistoryPlace.com). The six weeks of holocaust is known as the Rape of Nanking. The Japanese were nationalist and they believed their country was the best. The military invasion of Nanking began in the summer of 1937. The resistance of the Chinese made the Japanese outraged. After some time passed by, the Japanese defeated China at Shanghai in…

During World War two (1939-1941) Australia’s participation in war increased as they were threatened by Japan which caused a significant change in the Australian foreign policy from 1941. In 1939 was when it was announced that Australia will be contributing in World War Two (WWII) when Germany, Japan and Italy launched a series of war-like actions between 1931 and 1939. This can be seen through the way Australia’s foreign policy changed from the beginning to the end of the war, the impact the…

How did the Russo-Japanese War affect Russia? Explain the state of Russia’s economy and government between 1894-1914. (At least three paragraphs). (9 PTS) In 1904, the Russo-Japanese War occurred due to a conflict over which country would control Korea, Manchuria, and Port Arthur. The conflict began with Russia forming an alliance with China over Japan, thus controlling a part of the Manchurian territory. This territory stretched from the Trans-Siberian Railroad to the Chinese controlled area…

There are many differences between the American and Japanese culture. One must never assume that any one culture is the same, even if the two culture appear similar on the surface. American and Japanese cultures appear similar on the surface. But if one looks any deeper than surface level, it is very easy to see that the two cultures are as different as any two cultures can be. In this section three key differences will be discussed between American and Japanese culture. The author will also…

the US and Japanese forces and what started the Japanese’s fight against the United States. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, but they also attacked "the Philippines, Wake Island, Guam, Malaya, Thailand, Shanghai and Midway" (www.historyplace.com). In the following days, Japan invaded Thailand, the Philippines and Burma, as well as take Guam. The Japanese and American forces used air raids to attack and invade islands in the pacific, much like the Germans and Americans…