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    prefecture, in central Japan. During his childhood, Ienaga's school established the Japanese race was descended from the sun goddess Amaterasu, and that the emperor was living divinity. This is also noted in John W Dower's book War Without MercyAt the beginning of the war Saburo Ienaga was a high-school teacher. During his time teaching high school Ienaga sought to instruct his students about the entire history of Japan instead of neglecting some of the atrocities that Japan had done. He was deemed

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    Ancient Japan’s Soldiers In 600 B.C.E Japan united into one central government. The Government was built around Military Strength.They Spent Years perfecting their skills until they became one of the most powerful armies in history. The Samurai were soldiers for the Japanese army. They were outfitted with armor from head to toe. They would Carry 2 swords, one being a short and the other long.Samurais were skilled with the sword as well as archery and horseback. They Followed a code That could

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    The Boxer uprising erupted in China in the late 1890’s. After China’s loss to Japan in the Sino-Japanese war, many nations such as Japan, Great Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Italy and Austria began to encroach and claim areas referred to as the “spheres of influence” and demanded exclusive trading rights. With the Qing dynasty now weak and unable to prevent foreign domination, “Christian missionaries became more aggressive”[1]. The uprising began with the peasants who had grown tired of all

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    America’s Justification For the Use of the Atomic Bomb On August 6th, 1945, the United States of America dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima in Japan. Two days later, a second bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. These two bombs were the most devastating weapons ever seen, and their effects on human beings and property were plainly horrifying. Approximately 110,000 people were killed; most of them were innocent civilians who just happened to have lived in the wrong

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    conventional bombing to try to push Japan over the edge to surrender, but with countless Japanese civilians loyal to their country, invading Japan proved to be more problematic than first thought. Harry S. Truman made the ultimate decision of dropping the atomic bomb in hopes that it would end the war, but the amount of casualties caused by it has historians questioning if it was morally right, “The bomb was unfortunate, but it was the only means to bring Japan to a surrender,” historian Sadao Asada

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    Fuji is a symbolic Japanese landmark, it’s nickname “the Land of the Rising Sun” or traditionally called Goraiko, shows it’s cultural and spiritual importance. This mountain is the tallest in Japan and is an active volcano. My Fuji is located approximately 100 kilometres away from Tokyo the capital of Japan. The last time Mt. Fuji erupted was in 1707. More than 200,000 people climb Mt. Fuji every year. This mountain is sacred to the Japanese people and has been the base of many paintings, Mt Fuji

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    Dropping the Bomb In 1945 America committed an act that some consider to be one of the most destructive acts in the world. It has been questioned why America would execute the devastating dropping of the bombs, nicknamed fat man and little boy, on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War two. One of the first and probably main factors for dropping the bombs was to end World War two as soon as possible. The cost of the war was steadily increasing and Truman wanted keep the cost as low as possible

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    19th Century Japan

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    In the nineteenth century, after a long stretch of noninterference, China and afterward Japan went under weight from the West to open to remote exchange and relations. The Industrial Revolution in Europe and the United States had made a wide hole amongst them and the West, leaving the two Asian countries behind innovatively and military. In that period, neither of them had the ability to face the Western countries, and in the end both needed to sign unequal settlements that constrained them to open

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    of armies originated a vacuum of power which lead to a lack of leadership and order among the European Empires. The Second World War was an aggressive event that involved almost every powerful countries of the 30’s and 40’s. Hostile states such as Japan saw this war as a new

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    Was the United States justified in dropping the atomic bombs on Japan? On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb named Little Boy on Hiroshima Japan. The approximate death toll was 200,000 people. Then three days later they dropped a second called Fat Man on Nagasaki Japan. The approximate death toll was 140,000 people. This was the first time in history that nuclear weapons were used in war. The United States reasonings for dropping the atomic bombs were that we wanted to force

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