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The Rise of New Religion Soka Gakkai dates as far back as the prewar period, the 1930s in Japan. It has gained a reputable membership throughout its beginnings to present day. Although Japan has recently reached a point of secularization, the teachings of Nichiren are followed by many people, nearly 8.3 million citizens of Japan. There are various criticisms towards the religion because of its close ties with education and political participation. The Gakkai have seized the opportunity of…

Foreign Offices about the country they are going to declare the war. Having discovered this, the U.S. cryptocenter began to direct its special concern to the weather forecast of Japan and finally discovered the following sentence on December 4. In Tokyo today winds will gradually get intense, cloudy weather will be possible. In Kanagawa Prefecture today northerly winds, cloudy. In Chiba Prefecture northerly winds, fine weather, might be cloudy, waves are…

college, is undergoing a transition that is analogous to the major changes of the Meiji reform. He is young, and full or life, much like the modernization that was gripping Japan at the time; the rush to modernize was especially in major cities like Tokyo, where the Narrator spends the bulk of their time. The next age group, holding Sensei and K, are trapped in a battle between modernization and more traditional values. They seem to resist change, but they generally enjoy the amenities that…

Japan is located on the east coast of Asia that consists of over 6,852 islands with four main islands: Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku (“Japan’s Geography,” 2014). Almost 80% of Japan’s population lives on Honshu Island (“Where is Japan,” 2012). Japan is the sixty-second largest country based on the area measurement, and it is comparable to the state of California. It consists of a coastline, which is 29,751 kilometers in length without any land boundary (“Where is Japan,” 2014). The…

Although coming-of-age and social class struggle are significant adversities faced by Shinji and Hatsue, there is yet a greater conflict in Yukio Mishima’s The Sound of Waves. In writing about the value of cultural purity, and, thus, emphasizing traditional Japanese customs, Mishima constructs a secondary conflict within his narrative regarding the opposition between tradition and modernity, which despite its peripheral role in Mishima’s novel, illuminates important aspects of his writing,…

Supposedly, not as many Americans have heard of the Japanese diplomat named Chiune Sugihara, who broke his country’s laws by issuing thousands of unauthorized visas in order to let an accounted for 6,000 Jews avoid territories in Japan that had been occupied by the Nazi party. In contrast, many Americans have heard of other people who protected the Jews in the holocaust like Oskar Schindler, who only protected about 1,200 Jews by making them work in his factories. Artifacts that can be traced…

end, but there is a problem with the timing that shows otherwise. On August 6, 1945, the United States selected the city of Hiroshima, a manufacturing center to upwards of 400,000 people located roughly 500 miles southwest of the capital city of Tokyo, as the first target (“Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”). The bomb, dubbed as “Little Boy”, compiled of 9,000 pounds of uranium, and was loaded on a B-29 bomber, the “Enola Gay”. The bomb was dropped over head at 8am and exploded 2,000 feet…

Louis Zamperini was a olympian who competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics and was scheduled to compete in the 1940 Tokyo Olympics. The Olympics was cancelled due to WWII. Zamperini due to the cancellation of the Olympic enrolled in the Army Air Corps. He was later captured by the Chinese and sent into one of their slave camps. Although Louis Zamperini had a very good childhood his life would later be changed, and do the event of him being captured, placed in a slave camp, and surviving, he was…

On August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, just three days later a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. While many historians argue about the morality of the bombs, and effect on the Japanese decision to surrender, this essay will discuss whether the Japanese had enough time to initiate a surrender in between the atomic bombings. In Japan, there are six major leaders which are required to come to a unanimous decision to bring about surrender. At the…

entrepreneur and producer. He was the producer of many popular movies such as Snow White, Pinocchio, and Bambi just to name a few. He founded many theme parks such as Disneyland in Anaheim, California, Walt Disneyworld in Orlando, Florida, Disneyland Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan, Disneyland Paris in Paris, France, Disneyland Hong Kong in Lantau Island, Hong Kong, and Disneyland Shanghai in Shanghai, China. The Walt Disney company has many stores around the country where you can buy anything from…