Karafuto Prefecture

In Choi Ki-young’s article “Forced Migration of Koreans to Sakhalin and Their Repatriation,” he argues that Sakhalin Korean were put in an awkward position that they were forced to leave their hometown to settle down in Sakhalin as soldiers, workers and comfort women under the colonization of Imperial Japan, but both Japanese government and South Korean government did not make obligated efforts to the repatriation of Sakhalin Korean to South Korea while Soviet government presented indifferent attitude towards this issue after the war between Imperial Japan and Soviet government. And he also described in his article how Sakhalin Korean activists made contribution to influence the international position of Sakhalin Koreans and it ultimately turned a civilian-led movement to a government-led movement for the purpose of repatriation of Sakhalin Koreans. However, I think the issue of repatriation of Sakhalin Koreans can be seen in the way that they were regarded as valuable human capitals as war trophies; therefore, Japanese empire could not fill its responsibility to repatriate them to South Korea and Soviet government tended to remain them as its cheap labor force. At the end of war between Japan and Russia, the position of Sakhalin Koreans was getting worse. Japan did not intend to repatriate colonized Sakhalin Koreans to South Korea or the territory of Japan, but only Japanese people with Japanese nationalities. On the other side, Soviet government did not want to lose…

People like to believe they have control over their own decisions; however, all decisions and all actions are taken under a system of laws and moral and cultural codes ingrain into everyone since childhood. In Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s The Social Contract, he notes that state of nature is where everyone is free and at peace, but as population grows and people’s needs changes, humans starts to group themselves together, loosing that freedom. Socially, one must lose their individual freedom for…

is geographically encompassed by the South China Sea to the south and by a narrow water body (separating the megacity from the Kowloon Peninsula at the mouth of Pearl River Delta) to the north. The megacity, which has two hundred and sixty peninsulas and territorial islands, has a population of approximately 7.23 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau (2014). This population is distributed over a land area of about 1100 square kilometers (approximately 426 square miles), making a…

The Berkeley Coat Company is a Japan developing company that focuses on developing suitable solutions to the Japanese people. The areas of the development allows consumers to purchase coats of their choosing. As far as our business plan goes, we plan on licensing/franchising the company This report was commissioned to examine why the sales volume of the Berkeley Coat Company has decreased over the past three years, since reaching its peak and recommending ways of increasing demands for coats.…

However, fees can cover only 30 percent of the maintenance expenses. Therefore, the government had to come up with a solution to cover the rest of maintenance expenses. Then the government came up with a solution. The solution is that seven municipalities merge their water networks with Matsue City, where is the capital of Shimane Prefecture. One of the solutions to the water fee problem is conservation. Although Japan has much amount of fresh water, the Japan Water Works Association encourages…

Its magnitude was 7.3, the focus was at a depth of 10 kilometers. The first earthquake of magnitude 6.5 occurred on Thursday 14 April. Then, nine people were killed (Soble, 2016). Authorities Kumamoto Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, where the strongest tremors were felt, according to the devastation of damaged roads and power lines, local hospital had been evacuated because of the danger of collapse. In the city of Yatsushiro the fires, power outages occurred in many cities. The region gains…

An unexpectedly accident, no one is ready to do any to escape. This earthquake is the most destructive seism, since the founding of the people 's Republic of China. It is also one of the most serious casualties after the earthquake in Tangshan. This accident caused a total of 69,227 deaths; 17,923 missing population; 374,643 injured; and children lost their lovely of home and family member ; destroyed an entire Sichuan. When the headlines coming out being a Chinese, we are mournful. After this…

On May 12, 2008, a disastrous earthquake, measuring at 8.0 Ms, occurred in Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province, China. The earthquake resulted from the collision between the Indo-Australian Plate and Eurasian Plate along the Longmenshan fault (Liu &Wang, 2013). As one of the most severe earthquakes happened in China, it caused a huge number of deaths and made millions of people become homeless (Zhang et al, 2012). A disaster is not only caused by the natural hazard, which is sometimes unavoidable,…