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    General Hideki Tojo was born in Tokyo, in the Kōjimachi district on December 30, 1884. He was the eldest son of a samurai descent. In 1899, Tojo entered a military school to follow his father’s footsteps of a Japanese military man. In 1909, he married a woman, Katsuko Ito. Together they had three sons and four daughters. Tojo graduated in 1915 with honors, then he went to Europe and studied there for three years. In 1922, when Tojo had returned, he became an instructor at a war college for…

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    Unbroken is a historical narrative about Louis Zamperini’s life, mainly focusing on him being a prisoner of war during the second World War. The book talks in detail about the camps and all of the prisoners hardships while they’re there. It gives insight on what they went through on a daily basis, being forced to help the Japanese during the war and not being fed. When people discuss World War II they tend to mainly discuss the troubles in Germany and about the bombings in Japan, but never talk…

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    China has a vast infrastructure plan to compensate for the enormity in actual size of land that makes up the country. China has a telecommunications infrastructure that continues to expand, especially in the last few decades. China’s telecommunications industry is nationalized like many of its other industries. The three major operators are China Telecom, China Mobile, and China Unicom, all providers of mobile and land phone lines. (Central Intelligence Agency). Like previously mentioned, these…

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    The impact of the Sino-Japanese war on the Chinese State’s economy was completely negative,because, the war, severely harmed China’s modernization efforts. At the same time, the Chinese government encouraged both foreign and domestic investment into the economy, invested in heavy industries, promoted internal unity, intervened in the private sector to prevent its collapse and pursued policies that lead to the rapid development of cities and towns throughout the country. Not to mention…

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    The Nanjing massacre is one of the most devastating events that took place in China during the second Shino-Japanese war. The massacre was a series of war crimes committed by the Japanese soldiers upon taking over the city, Nanjing. The Japanese soldiers raped, murdered, and looted the Chinese citizens that were left abandoned by the Chinese military forces. The figure of the atrocities ranges from 150,000 to 200,000 that is claimed by China and 25,000 to 50,000 people that is claimed by the…

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    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 Communist Party, believed in Soviet Communistic ideals. Communism was favored by the lower, the proletariat (Durdin). When emperor Pu Yi lost power and the Qing dynasty collapsed, the Nationalist Party stepped in and ruled the Republic of China. When the Communist…

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    Smallpox, caused by the variola virus, was used by the Soviet Union so that could have an advantage during war. Despite signing The Biological Weapons Convention treaty, a law put in place to stop the manufacturing of bioweapons, they persisted in the use of smallpox as a bioweapon. Their continued involvement in the smallpox bioweapons program eventually caused an outbreak which sickened ten people, killing three of them. Adam Sutler’s and the Soviet Union’s use of bioweapons compared to one…

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    Nanking Massacre When presented with the opportunity, people may find themselves committing horrible crimes if they believe they won't experience any repercussions. The Nanking Massacre proves this theory through the in-the-moment decisions of the Japanese army during their invasion of the Chinese city of Nanjing. The incident has redefined what constitutes as a war crime as an act of war that infringes on the individual rights of non-participants, as well as guided the universal methods of war…

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    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…

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    During World War II, Japan committed countless crimes against the civilians of the nations they occupied, from the Nanjing Massacre to the issue of comfort women were few of the most major crimes committed by the Imperial Japanese Army. The Nanjing Massacre involved the mass murder of 300,000 people and the rape of around 20,000 women. During this duration of time, the comfort women were also introduced, which involved the forced prostitution of Asian women from the Philippines, Korea and China…

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