Japanese people

In the 1945, Chiang Kai-shek was respected by the Chinese people and the international community as a national leader who leaded China victory toward Japan. However, three years later, Chiang was defeated by Mao Ze-dong and withdrew his army to Taiwan. This power transformation was not done overnight. Since the success of the Northern Expedition, Chiang’s government had been facing many difficult issues. In 1937, the Anti-Japanese War was weaken Chiang’s government even more. Around the same…

driving force toward Japanese imperialism in Japan. The cry “for the emperor” persevered from the Meiji Restoration to WWII to continue to support the various shifting movements, militarism, and imperialism. The extent of the emperor’s influence and involvement during WWII was tested the most with Emperor Hirohito who lived during WWII and US Occupation. The Japanese emperor was used as a source of conflict and concessions to both start and end wars and represented Japanese goals of…

Manhua Journey to the West, a graphic novel by Zhang Guangyu in 1945, is a nod to the Chinese classic Journey to the Wets by Wu Cheng'en written in the year 1592. It is written around the reign of the KMT and during the second Sino-Japanese War. From which Zhang uses the style in which Journey to the West was written to "implicate" poke fun of the government and their policies. How does Zhang Guang use the classic Journey to the west to explain the events around 1945 circa China? Why does he…

In 1912, the Qing `Dynasty ended and there was a power vacuum in China. The Nationalist Party became the leading power, but by 1917, communism was on the rise and the Communist Party of China became a prominent influence on politics in China (“The Qing Dynasty”, Wu). Instead of debating with governmental discussions, the military eventually entered into the conflict. The Kuomintang leaders Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek fought for a democratic Republic of China. Mao Zedong, head of the…

The Rape of Nanking History states that Japan and China have been at war for decades. Throughout the years, the acts of violence have been gradually increasing. In 1937, the Japanese began a war that left more than 300,000 Chinese men, women, and children dead. The atrocities committed were just the beginning to a year of genocide. The Rape of Nanking will go down in history as one of the most brutal acts of bloodshed throughout all of China. During the nineteenth century, a war was fought…

Propaganda is an effective style of persuasion in which people are swayed to believe a lie by images and little reason or logic. By using images that defame a certain group of people, the government attempts to spread the ideas through the propaganda and is able to impose the same opinions onto its citizens. In the early to mid-1900s, Caucasian Americans were against the Japanese, and, because of their similar appearance, other Asians were discriminated against as well. With the show of thin…

The second paper, by Harold John Cook (Cook 2004), states that the scientific revolution was built not by a few geniuses thinking in their rooms, but from the collective efforts of countless people, and argues for a geographical de-centering of the concept of scientific revolution. To argue for his theses, Cook documents the case of Willem ten Rhijne. Willem van Rhijne went to Japan, by the means of the East India Company, because the government of Japan wanted to enrich their knowledge about…

country at the time, but they did manage to control many territories in China and Germany and they stopped Germany from attempting to cross smaller seas in the region. Their part was small but very significant and will always remain in the hearts of people…

As 1945 drew to a close, the fate of the Korean nation hung in the balance. For over one thousand years, the Korean Peninsula had been united under several states; and the last government of a united Korea, the People’s Republic of Korea, was under fire. Due to treaty agreements between the United States, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the peninsula would be partitioned into two zones of occupation; the Soviets controlling the region north of 38th parallel, while the Americans…

Most people normally see the issue as just a history or events that took place in the past and not as current tension between the two countries, most people also believe that it is unusual or will take a very long time to see this issue get resolved. Also the believe is that the reason for the tensions and hostility between the two…