Sugihara Manchuria

In 1931, Japan occupied Machuria and Pu Yi was asked to be the Chief Executive and soon

For many students around the world, ethnocentrism is a real, serious issue that impedes understanding and success. One example of how this ethnocentrism invades the minds of the average American and distorts their thoughts is by asking them to compare different Asian histories or cultures, to which they will likely reply “they’re all the same.” In addition to being ethnocentric, this viewpoint is just plain wrong. Take, for example, Qing China and Tokugawa Japan. Though these two Asian empires had many things in common, they are far from being the same.

One of the most brutal mistakes made by Stalin was the creation of a GULAG. It is difficult to give a precise characterization of its purpose. The aim of this work is to answer the question, “Can we generalize why certain people were able to survive the Gulag more than others?” To survive the Gulag, many prisoners had to fight with others for food, shelter, and simple medical care. Certain prisoners went into religious and intellectual meditations to preserve at least the appearance of intelligence. The survival required willpower, strength of mind, skills, mercilessness, and a lot of luck.

There is a man named Chiune Sugihara who help over thousands of Jews in the Holocaust, for most people that don’t know what the Holocaust is. It was a horrible time period in World War II when a man named Hitler didn’t like the way Jews were, so he put them in places called ghettos and then he started these camps to kill all of the Jews he can before he got caught doing this.But there were people around the world risking their life helping these Jews so they wouldn’t have to go through what Germans were doing to them. That’s were Mr.Sugihara a Japanese government official who tooked days doing what him and his wife did to save thousands of Jews. He saved over 7,000 Jews, by having him and his wife writing visas for hours and even days, because

Between 1861 and 1940 more than 250,000 Japanese immigrated to the United States and settled in Hawaii. They made a living by working in the sugarcane fields as contract workers. Once their contracts ended some stayed on and started a life there. Others moved on and settled on the West Coast of the mainland.

”(Paldiel 102) “ In 1971, two years before his death, Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, bestowed on Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz the prestigious honor of Rightest Among Nations”. (Paldiel

For the third engaged activity, I decided to attend a lecture on April 24th by Martin Previsic, a professor at the University of Zagreb who specializes in Croatian history. Previsic’s lecture was titled “The Yugoslav Gulag: The Goli otok (Barren Island) Labor Camp, 1949-1956.” Previsic’s lecture revolved around the time period of the “Tito-Stalin split”, which was an era marked as being the end of mutual relations between the Soviet Union and the former country of Yugoslavia. The spit, initially occurring shortly after WWII in 1948, was caused due to conflicting political interests of Yugoslavia’s leader Josip Tito and the Soviet Union’s Joseph Stalin. Though they had relations prior, Tito and the Yugoslavian government no longer wanted

The death of emperor Hideyoshi and subsequent ascension to the throne of Hideyori in 1598 set into motion events that would alter the political landscape in Japan for the next two hundred and fifty years. Tokugawa Ieyasu, in his quest to become absolute ruler of Japan defeated Hideyori loyalists in the battle of Sekigahara and was appointed Shogun by Hideyori in 1603. This military “coup d’état” effectively gave Tokugawa complete control of Japan and reduced the emperor to little more than a figurehead in the governing of Japan. As history would show, the feudal system of government that Tokugawa created ultimately led to

The fantasies of Shimamura throughout Snow Country revolve around the beauty of both Yoko and Komako through reflections as opposed to direct view, which further depicts the temporariness of relationships as Shimamura is solely invested in physical appearance and the distance created through indirect view creates a certain

Sakoku, or the national seclusion, of Japan by the Tokugawa Iemitsu in the 1630s was one of the most important periods in Japanese history. Many people perceived that Japan became uniquely unique because of the Sakoku. However, during the Sakoku, Japan was not complete sealed off from foreign influences and trades. The national seclusion of Japan is believed by some people that there is only limited trade with the Dutch and Chinese in Nagasaki. According to Oxford Art Online during the Edo period, the Bay of Nagasaki is “the only port open to overseas trade” (Bonnie), which was not true. During the Sakoku, Japan was not restricted to only the bay in Nagasaki, but Japan had total of four designated places that allowed foreign contacts. Before the detail of the four areas of foreign relations during the Sakoku period, the reasons for the Sakoku need to be explained.

The Second Sino-Japanese war began on July 7th, 1937 and ended on September 9th, 1945. It was a military conflict which was fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. As part of the struggle against fascism, Japan invaded China. It is clear that, due to the restriction of its natural resources, Japan tried to increase by robbing resources from other countries. Japan used the conquered Manchuria as a launching base for their troops. Manchuria was an enormous region that consisted of three provinces- Liaoning in the south, Jilin in the middle and Heilongjiang in the north. In 1905, when Japan defeated Russia in the Russo-Japanese war, Russia, which used Manchuria for business and

In “P&G Japan: The SK-II Globalization Project” case study, the author Christopher Bartlett presents the P&G’s plan of pushing SK-II as a global beauty product. In late 1999, Paolo de Cesare, President of Max Factor Japan, had given an idea to the Global Leader Team (GLT) of P&G’s Beauty Care Global Business Unit (GBU) that whether it was a good idea for pushing SK-II to become a global P&G brand. Since the product was successful in Japan ($150 million in sales in 1999), P&G then was considering in expanding its SK-II to be distributed worldwide. There was also an effort of the Global Growth strategy of P&G at that time as an influence factor to

Yunnan Baiyao Group Co., Ltd. is part of the pharmaceutical industry known for its unique traditional herbal medicines specializing in the treatment of open wounds, fractures, contusions and strains. The business has undergone changes in the recent years to modernize not only the structure of the company but also with the aim to diversify its market and products in order to remain competitive at a global level.

This is a Washington Post article by Martin D. Gensler, published in 1994, titled, “Japan’s Rescue of Lithuanian Jews”. In this article, it explains the ideas of the authors who wrote about Chiune Sugihara’s life of the reason behind why he decided to oppose the Japanese government. This article is reliable because it contained evidence to support their thoughts, however, contained paraphrases of Sugihara’s quotations which may be interpreted different depending on one’s self, therefore, cannot be determined

Uasin Gishu County is one of the forty seven counties located in the Rift Valley parts of Kenya. According to Kamenju et al, Uasin Gishu County covers the area around 3,328 square Kilometers. It borders Lugari District of Western province to the West, borders Keiyo, and Marakwet and Koibatek to the East, borders Nandi North and Nandi South to the South, and Trans Nzoia Districts of East and West to the North. Uasin Gishu is divided into six administrative divisions namely; Moiben, Kesses, Soy, Ainabkoi, Kapsaret and Turbo. Turbo and Kapsaret Divisions are densely populated, while Turbo consists of a high urbanization rate, Kapsaret consists of large farms. The main economic activity in the Uasin Gishu County is the agriculture, and the main food crops grown are maize, beans and Irish potatoes. The main cash crops grown are wheat, maize among others. Eldoret is the main town and the commercial centre of the District. Uasin Gishu region consists of a mixture of more ethnic communities including; Kikuyu, Maasai, Luo, Kisii, Luhya and the Kalenjin. In this respect Kalenjins occupy a large percentage of the inhabitants in the County. For example, the issues related to electoral processes such as promotion of human rights, freedom of expression, and among others are as well articulated in the democratic principles. Electoral process is among the packages of a democracy. Moreover, Nzongola-Ntalaja et al implies that democracy is a moral value, and is what human beings endure as