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Sam Aarons / May 4, 2013 6:20 pm
Flames billow up into the sky from the charred shell of a black Honda. The owner walks away, guilty of having just set fire to his own car. Behind the man is a sign written in Chinese exclaiming “Defeat the Japanese Demons.” This is just one of many scenes capturing the zeitgeist of the riots last September in China that occurred after the Japanese government nationalized three uninhabited islands that lie off the coasts of Japan, China, and Ta...
Yurina Ko / October 18, 2009 5:22 pm
...ted boldness, shaking the public’s half-century-old devotion to the LDP. It was not an accident that the DPJ borrowed much of this rhetoric straight from President Obama’s campaign playbook. During President Obama’s campaign, Japanese Obama impersonators became popular entertainers. Coincidentally, a port city named “Obama” cheers for the American president for all his accomplishments to this day. With a similar effect, CNN’s report of the Japane...
Michael Ard / September 22, 2012 4:28 pm
from Wikimedia Commons On September 18, 1931, the Imperial Japanese Army created a crisis in Manchuria as a pretext for invasion. Dynamite was detonated in a train station in the city of Mukden (now known as Shenyang, in the northern Chinese province of Liaoning). The Japanese blamed the explosion on Chinese dissidents, and launched a full invasion of Manchuria. The puppet state of Manchukuo (the “country of the Manchu”) was established a short...
Yurina Ko / October 31, 2010 9:50 pm
Okinawa is ambiguous. It is an idyllic, subtropical vacation spot in the eyes of most Japanese as well as the site of the 1945 Battle of Okinawa, the largest land-sea-air battle of World War II. Okinawa is one of 47 prefectures in Japan, but it also doubles as a home to 14 U.S. military bases which in total occupy one-fifth of the island. Its advantageous geographical location allows easy access to East Asia and the Middle East, making the islan...
Noah Fram / October 21, 2010 2:29 pm
...’s moral standards are too great. Apologists for the bombings claim that if Truman had not ordered the extermination of those two cities, the war would have continued for years, resulting in far more deaths, both American and Japanese. Instead, we gambled on the belief that the Japanese people would set aside their fabled disregard for individual lives and surrender to the instinct of self-preservation. The kamikaze bombers were a clear example,...
Michael Ard / March 26, 2012 2:00 pm
It has now been over one year since northeastern Japan was devastated by what has been dubbed by many as the “triple disaster” – consisting of an earthquake, a deadly tsunami, and the nuclear meltdown of the now-infamous Fukushima nuclear power plant. According to The Economist, the disaster killed more than 19,000 people and left over 325,000 homeless. The millions of Japanese people’s lives directly affected by the disaster can never be accur...
Narayan Subramanian / May 4, 2013 6:40 pm
...islands that are home to a population of around 70,000 people. The country, strategically located just south of Japan, played an important role in World War II, and the United States officially wrested control of it from the Japanese in 1944 as part of its retaliation to the Pearl Harbor attack. In the aftermath of the conflict, the Marshall Islands was admitted to the United Nations as a Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, along with most o...
Eric Lukas / November 11, 2007 10:44 am
Japanese historians Nozaki Yoshiko and Inokuchi Hiromatsu once described school textbooks as an “important site [for] creating and disseminating narratives.” By projecting a specific viewpoint of an event on the impressionable minds of students, the books can “readily reinforce dominant ideologies.” A major occurrence in history can be spun in different ways, depending on the words used to describe it. The attacks of Sept...
Michael Ard / November 28, 2011 2:00 pm
...c Strategic Economic Partnership (TPP). The potential seems limitless: Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam, Chile, Peru, and the United States have already engaged in negotiations. At the APEC Summit, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda made the stunning announcement that Japan would also take a seat at the negotiating table. It is also highly likely that other economic heavyweights—like Canada and Mexico—may also join...
Andrew Godinich / March 2, 2012 3:15 pm
...ch has a staggering variety of peoples contributing to its national identity, is also the only country that could perhaps vie with it for the title of the “world’s melting pot.” It boasts the largest population of Japanese people outside of Japan, in addition to sizeable Lebanese, Italian, and German communities. Brazil has only voted against the United States once at the United Nations Security Council. Furthermore, Obama is widely p...
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