Nanking

This of course lead to the event known as the Nanking Massacre, which is the first event discussed in the book. It is taught that during the invasion of Nanking, the Japanese raped and killed many Chinese children, women, and men. It is still debated to this day the number of people that died in this massacre. For example, Cook explains, “Official histories…

The Empire of Japan had been waging war on China and attacking places like ,the then Chinese capital, Nanking. The attack on Nanking alone killed three hundred thousand people(The Nanking Atrocities). With that said the Japanese attack on the american island of Hawaii was very catastrophic. In total there was a loss of two thousand four hundred and three people to die on the American side and…

trade due to the treaties of Nanking and Tientsin. As a result, the major increase in trade allowed the tea and silk industries to modernize. The cost of the wars and the reparations paid to foreign countries fell on the farmers as the Manchu government could no longer protect and provide for its people. (“Lasting Effects of the Opium Wars”, 2006) In addition to that, the government knew that they had not exhausted all possible options before they signed the Treaty of Nanking which was a…

Genocide is a word meaning many horrible things that happen in one of them. Many have happen all across the world from Asia to the Americas. Many people have died from these acts for whatever reason these people wanted. Murder is a small word compares to this, not even mass murder, or man slaughter even match it genocide will always be number one on the list. Genocide happens for ignorant excuses like religion, color, race, or smarts. There are people who follow them blindly and the ones who…

“As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a Holocaust is to kill twice” (Chang, 1997); the Holocaust is such a gargantuan massacre that ignorance of it would be, arguably, another mass killing. The Holocaust not only resulted in the murder of millions of innocent people but also left deep scars on those who survived—the ones who knew the horror better than anyone else could possibly do. In the article from Tablet Magazine, James Kirchick argues that the Holocaust should not…

After the opium war the British had a treaty of which the Chinese were to sign. This was known as the treaty of Nanking the first of what many called the unequal treaties . The reason behind the name is because the treaty of Nanking did many things. It gave the British Hong Kong. One of china’s most important ports. It also made British citizens not subject to Chinese law. It allowed British citizens to reside in china…

The shrine was administered by the army and navy up until the time of defeat in World War II when the American occupation authorities imposed the constitutional separation of religion and the state. The controversy over visits by Japanese prime ministers to the shrine arose from the fact that in 1978, the Yasukuni Shrine enshrined 14 executed World War II class-A criminals among the war dead, which generated dispute from neighboring Asian countries who view these visits as representing the…

The Opium War starts with the conflict between British and China, and ends with an unfair treaty and began the ‘century of Humiliation’. Before the 1800s, China, after its development through many centuries, revealed almost no difference with British and other European countries in many aspects such as agriculture, revenue & consumption, handicraft manufacturing and so on. It becomes diverse after British’s great technical improvements whereas China continued to stay in same situation over time.…

fifth article. 4. The importance of this document was to protect the people all over the world from unjustly rule. Before the events of the formation of the UN as well as the UDHR , there were such horrific and horrendous events such as the Rape of Nanking and the Holocaust. THe UDHR was pit in place so that these events would not occur. THe USHR protects human rights, and overall that means that it will protect these inalienable rights no matter the situation. The rights were meant to ensure…

Japan is geographically separated from China relatively by a narrow stretch of Ocean, China has strongly influenced Japan’s writing system, religion, and culture in the past. Japan had one of the most powerful Empires in the east defeating China, and Korea, it’s rapid growth of industrialization and militarization under the Slogan ‘Fukoku Kyohei’ has helped the country’s armed forces become more powerful and led to colonial empire and economic raise. Culminating in Japan’s membership in the…