Tokyo

the achievements of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Already powerful, Ieyasu profited by his transfer to the rich Kantō area. He maintained two million koku of land, a new headquarters at Edo, a strategically situated castle town (the future Tokyo), and also had an additional two million koku of land and thirty-eight vassals under his control. After Hideyoshi's death, Ieyasu moved quickly to seize control from the Toyotomi family. Ieyasu's victory over the western daimyo at the Battle of…

Remembering as if it happened yesterday I remember, waking up with my broken left ankle throbbing in pain. Limping out the door toward my SUV, I thought I should be on leave and enjoying the fresh snow in the mountains, but instead I am working today with a broken ankle. The base began its military deployment exercise today, and I did not want to report for duty. The day was gorgeous outside; the sun shining brightly and was a breathtaking day; nonetheless, there was an eerie feeling in the…

Next three weeks of my internship were more intense than the last ones. Within that time I have a chance to edit two videos, one of which was shot by the creative director and me; and to work as a researcher on eight projects, some of which are in stage of pre-production and others are potential. The research was conducted for potential Inside Lens program for NHK, UK band TV show, and Panasonic screen promotion video. For Inside Lens, I researched for potential topics, which are Bear Bile…

June 1st of 1968 in South Gate, California. He is of Mexican descent and he is still living, drawing and skating to this day. He has travelled all over the world, he recently went on a skateboarding trip all the world basically, to places such as Tokyo, Sao Paulo, Barcelona, etc. Something that I love so much about his artwork is how he incorporates skateboarding into his artwork without the art being nothing but skulls, fire and other very cliche ideas. He uses abstraction and surrealism in a…

My mother mysteriously disappeared when I was five years old, leaving my father to care for me alone, and thus inducing my sense of independence and my cynical mindset. My father and I weren’t close though; my father was always disconnected from me, but my grandmother told me that it was since he felt the blame that my mother had abandoned us. I wasn’t even told why my mother abdicated us until I was thirteen. My father and mother fell in love in high school, married, and were supposed to be…

“Moreover, the Pokdmon media products were skillfully designed to fuel a consumer culture of accumulation and acquisition among children. Like other television programming created for ldds, Pokemon was essentially a “thirtyminute commercial” promoting the product line through its storylines built around toybased characters.” The immense popularity of Pokemon among children in the late twentieth century has already been discussed. What, then, does this translate to in terms of a child’s…

This caused America to enter the war because at the time the U.S. was not participating Japan was later accused of committing a war crime in the Tokyo Trials. Toward the end of World War 2 America was still upset over this occurrence, therefore their response to this attack was “Executive Order 9066”. Executive Order 9066 was placed “Ten weeks after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, U.S. President…

252 percent in machinery.” (Japanese economic takeoff after 1945) Japan’s economy was prospering, but after the United States dropped the atomic bombs, the results were devastating. Japan went through a food shortage and many important cities, like Tokyo and Hiroshima, were bombed. These bombings were what forced Japan to surrender, thus ending World War II. After the war had ended, the United States helped Japan recover from the war. General McArthur oversaw the rebuilding of Japan, and he was…

Asia and Europe, and in 1960 the company decided to go public in the stock exchange. This making it the first secondary metals company to get listed on a major stock exchange. CMC by this point is growing exponentially opening its first office in Tokyo, Japan in 1961. Later CMC had Mr. Selig sign his company SMI to merger with them in 1963.…

Assuming the numbers are right (and I sincerely hope they're not), in a randomly selected crowd of ten thousand Americans, I am the only one who can read. It's mind boggling; my nine year old self had to sit down when she first learned it, mere hours after meeting the eyes of the astonished boy who was told that the note he was looking for was a B-flat. I have words running through my mind constantly, small phrases or whole pages on a loop, complete with percussion, until another strain catches…