Pearl Jam

Harry Mazer's A Boy at War, published in 2001, recounts the experiences of fourteen-year-old Adam Pelko. Adam is a young man from a military family who lives in Hawaii in the days leading up to and during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It is just a matter of chance that Adam and two friends are fishing in a rowboat on the harbor on that fateful morning when the attack occurs. At first, the boys assume that they have been caught in a drill, but quickly realize that the planes and bombs are…

Between 1945 and 1948 war crimes trials were taking place in Japan and began hearing the case against 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during World War II. On November 4, 1948, the trial ended with 25 of 28 Japanese defendants being found guilty. Of the three other defendants, two had died during the lengthy trial, and one was declared insane. On November 12, the war crimes tribunal passed death sentences on seven of the…

Was Japan provoked into attacking Pearl Harbor? On December 7 ,1941 Japan attacked pearl harbor. Many americans said why did this happen. But, the truth is that Japan didn’t want to be controlled by the U.S anymore.Before the 1850s Japan believed in isolationism but, the U.S pressured Japan to open themselves to trade. The U.S also froze all japanese assets so, the japanese could make money anymore even there own property. The U.s also slowly decrease trading with Japan. Japan wanted to be a…

It is often said you have to be white, straight, and male to be successful. My hero, George Takei, is only one of these. George Takei is an actor, a major activist, and a diplomat. I believe that he is man of courage who should be acknowledged for his work. One reason George Takei is a hero is he has improved the relationship between Japan and America, and improved how Americans view Japan since WWII. He improved the relationship between the two countries by being on the Japan-United States…

Pearl Harbor On December, 7th 1941, Japan bombed the Hawaiian Islands and took out most of our naval units in the Pacific Ocean. The United States fought back against Japan before, during, and after Pearl Harbor. The American Armed Services entered into the war by force, strike back fiercely, and ultimately took out Japan after the bombing, of Pearl Harbor. Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor is why the U.S. became involved in World War II. There are several reasons why Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.…

lived in humiliation and poor living conditions. Also it was wrong for the U.S. to hold the loyal Japanese citizens against their will. Of course the U.S. would be justified to hold Japanese residents in concentration camps. They feared that since Pearl Harbor was already attacked by Japan, that the Japanese in America would also help them. “They especially looked at the people who had boats or houses that had radios with a short-wave band, and high aerial on the roofs.”-pg. 7. America saw the…

“December 7, 1941 a day that will live in infamy.” This quote was from Franklin Roosevelt’s speech after The Pearl Harbor Attack. This was a dark day for America. Bombs dropped on all 31 of the navy’s ships in Pearl Harbor and not to mention the around 2,000 American men that were killed during the attack. To this day, this date brings back emotion and melancholy to the nation, but with this critical event, it shall never be forgotten. This is a day triumphs many others in the American history.…

significant issue of bias that I noticed after reading the Japanese Internment primary sources from the newspapers was the fact that prejudice and fear consumed the American people. People of Japanese ancestry were hated and feared due to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Propaganda is a powerful biased communication that helps sway people’s beliefs and opinions. In World War II anti-Japanese posters were designed to increase support for the war by creating hatred for the enemy. It didn’t matter…

Throughout World War II, Japan was most known for having the most barbaric treatments in their prison camps. Unlike other prison camps around the world, Japan had a tendency of torturing their prisoners not only physically but mentally. While countries like Germany and Russia only starved and forced labor on their prisoners, Japan tortured their prisoners mentally to the point of insanity (Japanese Treatment of World War II). Throughout one of the camps in Japan there laid a famous Olympic…

Another important cause for the disastrous attack on Pearl by the Japanese was that President Roosevelt furthered its “Moral Embargo” by expanding its restrictions to oil and scrap metal to stop Japan from expanding. At the beginning of 1900’s Japan was falling apart as they were running out of raw materials and oil. Japan decided that to survive they had to expand within Asia to get more materials so they invaded French Indochina in 1940 to embargo all imports to China which included war…