Japanese people

and Cambodia. This is what made tensions rise between 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…

viewing. Including the Modern and Contemporary Ceramics Kay Hardy and Gregory Kaslo Collection, Tall Tales, Laura Heit: Earth and Sky, etc. However, the exhibition Minidoka: Artist as a Witness caught my attention in particular. It was based around japanese-american artists who live through World War II in internment camps after the executive order 9066 was passed. The artists depicted mainly scenes of the internment camps through the eyes of those trapped on the inside. I found a painting by…

On the third of June, Japanese planes attacked Dutch Harbor, Fort Glenns, and Mears in the Aleutians. Along with the attack on Australia, this was meant to be an attack that distracted and diverted the American fleet; however, due to the intelligence, the USN knew Midway was the main objective and was not dissuaded in any way. Even though the attack damaged Dutch Harbor severely, in the end, it hurt Japan far more than helping due to the loss of a slightly damaged Zero, which was recovered by…

During World War II, many Japanese-Canadians were sent to internment camps. They were imprisoned, forced to work, and left to die with little to no food and exposed to fatal diseases. The Japanese became isolated among themselves and ripped from their homes in Canada. In the novel, Obasan, Joy Kogawa tells the story of Megumi Naomi Nakane and her family, Japanese-Canadians, experiencing exile that is both alienating and enriching. These experiences illuminate one of the many themes of the novel,…

of design and one rule of improvement. They say these rules are the DNA of the Toyota Production System. The four rules are: • Rule 1: All work shall be highly specified as to content, sequence, timing, and outcome. Authors define this rule as how people work i.e. “The person or a machine can do the specified work” [2]. When the activity is performed according to the rule, the process will be defect free. Toyota follows a standard sequence of operations, when the operations are performed in the…

strategy, defeated the previously “invincible” Japanese Fleet in a display of military prowess that could only be accomplished through the superb leadership and experience of the United States Commanders, Admiral Chester Nimitz, Rear Admiral Raymond Spruance, and Rear Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher. Their leadership coupled with their men’s faith and familiarity in the available sea and aircrafts, despite the superiority of the aircrafts of the Japanese adversaries, as well as having won the favor…

Many Australians feared that an Imperial Japanese invasion was imminent as Japan focused their forces further south towards Singapore. With the Australians not having confidence in their defense, Australians willfully requested for a commander in southeast Pacific from either Great Britain or America and it was not until the Americans lost the Philippians to the Axis that Australia had a strategic importance. The Americans set their base in Australia, under the command of an American general…

the Japanese empire. After the attack on Pearl Harbor Japan had time to make more of a push in the Pacific. Until 1942 in the Battle of the Midway when a U.S. Naval fleet about destroyed a Japanese fleet which was a major turning point in the war on the Pacific. Which later led to American forces…

Ashlyn Nelson, a writer for Al-Jazeera, writes this article about anti-Japanese sentiment during World War II, and its similarities to today’s anti-Muslim sentiment. To open her article, Nelson establishes ethos by stating that her grandparents are both second generation Japanese Americans, or Nisei. She writes about her grandfather moving to America, only to face extreme anti-Japanese hostility. She continues by stating, “My grandfather stopped leaving the house alone because he feared…

The appreciation of Min may also raise another issue. What did the elite class or people from wealthy scholar-official families really concerned about, the social status itself or “elegant taste/sensual sensitivity”? During the late-Ming period, the pursuit famous spring water embodied the aesthetic principle in scholar-officials’…