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Once there was a monster, but not just any monster a hugglemonster, Henry Hugglemonster. It was his 6th birthday. So, his mother got him a present, it was a trip to Japan! Though, little does Henry know, this trip will not exactly be what he expects. You won’t find out whether it's good or bad till the end. At the airport, Henry was very nervous. He didn’t know what to expect. They were walking onto their private jet, “The Huggle Express,” Henry asked his mother, ”Where are we going to stop first

the world since record-keeping began in 1900. The earthquake triggered powerful tsunami waves that reached heights of up to 40.5 metres (133 ft) in Miyako in Tōhoku. In the Sendai area, the water travelled up to 10 km inland. The earthquake moved Honshu (the main island of Japan) 2.4 m east, shifted the Earth on its axis by estimates of between 10 cm and 25 cm and generated sound waves detected by a low-orbiting

Devastation struck Japan on March 11, 2011 when the main island, Honshu, was rocked by the worst earthquake in the country’s history. According the U.S. Geological Survey, the earthquake, named the Great East Japan Earthquake, was so severe it shifted the earth’s axis by 10 cm and the jolt of the earth’s crust triggered a tsunami of epic proportion. Carrying a wall of water over 10 meters high and massive enough to been seen by the International Space Station, the tsunami claimed more lives than

Millau Viaduct The Millau Viaduct is located on Millau and Creissels, France. The bridge stretches across the Tarn River. It is the world's tallest cable-stayed bridge with a height of 343m (which is 40m more than the height of Eiffel Tower). It spans 2.6 km and has a net weight of about 266,000 tons. During summer, the roads stretching along Tarn valley, from Paris to Spain used to become jammed with holiday traffic, which created caused the necessity for construction of a bridge. The objective

In history, there are often decisions made that spark a lot of controversy. Such decisions include the policy of appeasement used when Hitler started taking over Europe in the 1930s, the internment of Japanese-Canadians during World War II, the Dieppe Raid in 1942, and the invasion of Iraq in 2003. One decision that also deserves to be included is the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. On May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered, ending World War II in Europe. May 8, 1945

the B-29 bomber , Enola Gay, carrying the destructive Atomic Bomb headed to Japan. he bomb was strategically dropped over the "dense population area" of the city. Only three days after the first attack, the US dropped another massive bomb on Japan. Both bombings exterminated between 129,000 and 226,000 lives in the first week. The sources information differ greatly from each other as the bomb has given no corpses as evidence. The number of casualties can therefore only be estimated. It was a significant

Chiune (Sempo) Sugihara (January 1, 1900-1986) was the primary Japanese ambassador presented on Lithuania. He was destined to a white collar class family in Japan's Gifu Prefecture on the principle Japanese Island of Honshu. Sugihara is some of the time additionally alluded to as "Chiune," a prior interpretation of the Japanese character for "Sempo," some portion of his formal name. Sugihara moved on from the elite Harbin Gakuin, Japan's preparation focus for specialists on the Soviet Union. As

considered this act to be “justified”. Many lives were taken that day in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. “On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb carried from Tinian Island in the Marianas in a specially equipped B-29 was dropped on Hiroshima, at the southern end of Honshu: the combined heat and blast pulverized everything in the explosion’s immediate vicinity, generated fires that burned almost 4.4 square miles completely out, and immediately killed some 70,000 people (the death toll passed 100,000 by the end of the

public transportation has characterized by the punctuality the superb service and the more crowds of the people use the train system. Japan has a bullet train which is the high speed train are used in the main island, which connects in Tokyo from Honshu and Kyushu. Religion in Japan is Shinto and Buddhism are the two major religions. Shinto is as old and the Japanese culture. Buddhism came from the main island in the sixth century. Since then the two religions have co-existing in harmony

armed forces, and provide proper and adequate assurance of their good faith in such action. The alternative for Japan is prompt and utter destruction.” The ultimatum then reaffirmed the Cairo pledge to limit Japanese sovereignty to the “island of Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, Shikoku and such minor islands as we determine”. In the early post-war years Japan’s economy was almost completely