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created in time for its use in Japan, leading to hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths. Estimates from the Radiation Effects Research Foundation, a cooperative Japan-US research organization, say that there were an estimated 90,000 to 166,000 casualties from the bomb dropped in Hiroshima, Japan, and an estimated 60,000 to 80,000 casualties from the bomb dropped in Nagasaki, Japan. If the United States had not had atomic bombs as a negotiation technique, Imperial Japan would have kept fighting to

head, it is the Prime Minister, who actually governs the country. Japan has a royal family led by an Emperor, Akihito (born December 23, 1933) is the current and 125th Emperor of Japan, but under the current constitution he holds no power at all, not even emergency reserve powers. Sovereignty, which was previously embodied in the Emperor, is now the domain of the people. The Emperor is defined as the symbol of the state. Japan has a parliamentary government, which consists of three branches: the

war between the United Kingdom and Imperial China. Smoking opium for the stimulating impacts is not noted in China until the eighteenth century, but rather likely started at some point before. The Chinese Imperial Government in the mid eighteenth century turned out to be progressively concerned with the spreading dependence on opium and its crippling impact. The Imperial Government disallowed the offer of opium blended with tobacco and banned opium-smoking houses (1729). The Government classed offering

historical connection between China and United States, they were and in some sense still are both rivals, which began with Mao Zedong driving American-supported Chang out of China soon after the unconditional surrender of the defeat of aggressive Imperial Japan in 1945. Mao took over China and forced Chang to beat a hasty retreat to Taiwan Island. Then in l950, the world witnessed the fierce armed confrontation between Mao led China versus the United Nations' forces with the full backing of United States

Comfort Women in World War II The term “comfort women,” is a controversial term that refers to the estimated 200,000 women who were recruited by force or deception into performing sexual services to Japanese Imperial Army troops during World War II. Under the control of the Japanese military, about 80 percent of these young women came from Korea, but women from China, the Philippines,Taiwan,Indonesia, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, East Timor, India, Guam and the Netherlands were also victims

During the Postclassical era, which spanned from 500 and 1450 C.E, the roles of women in China and Japan experienced change, as well as continuity. China and Japan both experienced several stages of change, from arranged marriages and not being allowed to participate in government, to more freedom in marriage and property rights and becoming priestess and empresses. Continuities in this time included a strict patriarchal society and practices such as foot binding that remained throughout an entire

The Japanese and Chinese have always had disputes with one another, and one of the biggest reasons for the Chinese and Japanese hating each other is the Invasion of Japan into China. It began with Japan invading and occupying Manchuria causing the hatred between the two countries to grow immensely. According to the New World encyclopedia, what made matter worse, was that China was at war with itself, the war was between the Chinese Nationalist Party and the Chinese Communist Party. Sun Yat-sen dies

deities of heaven and earth, and at the end of the 6th century the Japanese were conscious of these activities and called them the “Way of Kami” (the deity or the deities)'. The practice of Shintoism finally recognized when Yomei, the 31st Emperor of Japan, prayed before an image of Buddha for the first time as an emperor for recovery of his illness. Then Yomei accepted Buddhism, a foreign religion, the Japanese realized existence of a tradition of their own faith.      The

Ben Smith 1 Hideki Tojo 1884-1948 Hideki Tojo was born on December 30, 1884 in Tokyo, Japan. His fathers name was Hidenori Tojo, a Samurai that turned into an Army officer. His Mom was the daughter of a Buddhist priest. They were very poor. Tojo was raised to be a soldier. When he was little a message was drilled into his head (and the other boys at the school with him) that war was beautiful and that the Japanese emperor was an actual living god, so it would

This essay will focus on the Asuka Period in Japan, which was from 552 CE to 645 CE. Asuka was the name of the city where the capital, Tokyo which was located during this era. Buddhism has had a long and lasting history in Japan. It was introduced to the country around 552 CE from Korea and China. It is recorded that gifts were brought to the imperial family from the Korean Kingdom. Some of these gifts included Buddhist images, banners, canopies and scripture. Included in with the gifts were also