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| | History of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The written history of Japan began with brief appearances in Chinese history texts from the first century A.D., but abundant archaeological evidence demonstrates that people were living on the islands, which were actually adjoined to the mainland until about 13,000 years ago, as early as the upper paleolithic period. | | | Japan went to the peace conference at Versailles in 1919 as one of the great military and industrial powers of the world and received official recognition as one of the "Big Five" of the new international order. | | | Japan allied with Germany and Italy, and formed the Axis Pact of September 27, 1940. |
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| | Japan on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Military extremists instigated the assassination of Prime Minister Inukai in 1932 and an attempted coup in 1936. | | | Japan's economy collapsed after the defeat in World War II, and its merchant marine, one of the world's largest in the 1930s, was almost totally destroyed. | | | The government, which felt tremendous pressure to contribute to the UN effort in accordance with its economic power, also had to address the decidedly antimilitaristic bias of the Japanese people. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Douglas MacArthur |
| | History of Japan Paleolithic Jomon Yayoi Yamato period ---Kofun period ---Asuka period Nara period Heian period Kamakura period Muromachi period Azuchi-Momoyama period ---Nanban period Edo period Meiji period Taisho period Showa period ---Japanese expansionism ---Occupied Japan ---Post-Occupation Japan Heisei The Surrender of Japan Japan surrendered to the Allies... | | | Chiang Kai-shek (October 31, 1887–April 5, 1975) was a Chinese military and political leader who assumed the leadership of the Kuomintang (KMT) after the death of Sun Yat-sen in 1925. | | | Among MacArthur's assistants as Military Advisor to the Commonwealth of the Philippines was Dwight D. Eisenhower. |
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| | Military History |
| | Japan still has 5,003 underground air-raid shelters and underground military facilities left over from World War II, and 777 of them are on the verge of collapse, government officials said Friday. | | | An undetermined number of Jews in Shanghai and at least 275 German Jews in the Dutch East Indies were confined in restricted areas by the Japanese military during World War II, according to declassified diplomatic documents released Wednesday. | | | The survey, conducted in cooperation with local governments, found that all but one of the nation's 47 prefectures had some form of underground wartime facilities, such as bomb shelters and military factories. |
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| | Military history of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The military history of Japan, like that of most nations, is characterized by a long and fierce period of feudal wars, followed by a long period of domestic stability. | | | In April of 1941, Japan and Russia signed a neutrality pact and Japan increased pressure on the French and Dutch colonies, in Southeast Asia, to cooperate in economic matters. | | | In September of 1940, Germany, Italy, and Japan had allied under the Tripartite Pact. |
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| | WWII Campaigns: China Defensive |
| | Some Chinese were supporters of the Nationalist Kuomintang government; some supported one of the numerous former warlords nominally loyal to the Nationalists; and some supported the Communists, who were engaged in a guerrilla war against the military and political forces of the Nationalists. | | | Military commanders were selected for their political loyalty to Chiang rather than for their military ability, and risking excessive casualties through offensive operations was unacceptable. | | | While World War II continues to absorb the interest of military scholars and historians, as well as its veterans, a generation of Americans has grown to maturity largely unaware of the political, social, and military implications of a war that, more than any other, united us as a people with a common purpose. |
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| | Military History Online |
| | Added to this long national history was an equally long military history of victories against invaders and foes that had left Japan feeling invulnerable. | | | Author and historian David G. Chandler identifies Napoleon Bonaparte as "one of the greatest military minds that has ever existed."[1] Indeed Napoleon's exploits as a military commander and his subsequent rise to the position of Emperor of France and much of Europe has produced an enormous amount of scholarly interest. | | | History is replete with examples of Caesar's observation. |
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| | Articles and Sources related to Asian Medieval Military History |
| | This section examines medieval military history in China, Japan, the Mongol Empire, and other areas of Asia outside of the Middle East. | | | The History of the World Conqueror by 'Ala-ad-Din 'Ata-Malik Juvaini (Descripitons of Genghis Khan and his son Ogedei) | | | Crespigny, Rafe de, Later Han Military Organization - from the Introduction of To Establish Peace being the Chronicle of Later Han for the years 189 to 220 AD as recorded in Chapters 59 to 69 of the Zizhi tongjian of Sima Guang, translated and annotated by Rafe de Crespigny. |
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| | Military History: Far East Military History |
| | Japanese and Chinese military history can be found on the internet by using the search engine to look up "Chinese Military History" and "Japanese Military History" respectively. | | | I was wondering if you could tell me about Japanese and Chinese military ihstories, particularly pertaining to the Japanese invasion of China and the reason why though china had more manpower, japan was able tomdefeat them. | | | Now, in response to your question on why the Japanese defeated the Chinese, when China had manpower, it was due to the fact that China was not a united nation but one of warlords and colonial powers and didn't become united until 1949. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Books: Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese Military History |
| | A reference to the military history of contemporary China, through an examination of China's 19th-century military clashes with the West and Japan, and the evolution of the Red Army. | | | Subjects > History > Military History > General | | | Category(ies): Science & Nature, Society, Politics & Philosophy, History |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0313293376
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| | Information on the 1995 Rape Incident and the Protests that Followed |
| | The new case is another embarassment for the U.S. military, which has been the target of intense criticism in Japan since the servicemen were accused of raping a Japanese girl. | | | Tokyo- In the biggest political rally Okinawa has ever seen, tens of thousands of Japanese on Saturday demanded that the U.S. military slash its bases, and the southern island's governor hinted that base operations could be disrupted if changes are not made soon. | | | Although the United States ended its postwar occupation of mainland Japan in 1952, it continued to rule Okinawa prefecture until 1972 to safeguard a vast American military complex that occupies about 20% of the island. |
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| | Flying Yangban: Korean History |
| | Here is the logic at work in the Korean position: (1) Ulleungdo is acknowledge by Japan as Korean territory and (2) the fate of Dokdo is tied to the fate of Ulleungdo, therefore (3) Japan should acknowledge that Dokdo is Korean. | | | To further muddy the waters, some Japanese claim that some of the old references that Koreans claim are to Dokdo are actually to Jukdo and Gwaneumdo, two islands just off of Ulleungdo. | | | When the North Koreans were driven to the Chinese border, Kim needed a scapegoat to explain the military disaster and blamed Mu Chong, a leader of the Yanan faction and also a leader of the North Korean military. |
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| | Okinawa Overview |
| | “Re-examining the History of the Battle of Okinawa” and “Governor Ota at the Supreme Court of Japan.” Ibid. | | | The history of Okinawa over the past century and a half is so traumatic and charged that the island is one of the most difficult subjects to comment on in contemporary Japan. | | | Japan, in sharp contrast, was experiencing a tumultuous period of civil war and military rule at this time, and in 1415 Japan’s Ashikaga Shogunate declared the Ryukyus a tributary of Japan, evidence of their declining relations with China. |
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| | AsiaMedia :: Story, Print Version |
| | The debate in Japan is thus heavily influenced by a broader philosophical and ideological discussion of history and historiography, and in particular by a further debate over the legitimacy of the narrative on the history of pre-war and wartime Japan which emerged from the post-war military tribunals. | | | The perpetrators, the Japanese on trial, obviously had very strong motives for giving false testimony (some were facing the death penalty), but some aspects of the testimony of other witnesses can also easily be shown to be false. | | | Chang's work in particular is unashamedly based on this view of history and, as is often the case with this particular historical ideology, is fatally flawed. |
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http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/print.asp?parentid=16772
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| | Japan. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Military extremists instigated the assassination of Prime Minister Inukai in 1932 and an attempted coup in 1936. | | | Both nations were upset by school history textbooks that minimized aspects of Japan’s role in World War II, despite the fact that the textbooks were used by very few schools. | | | The old myths of imperial and racial divinity, rediscovered by scholars in the Tokugawa period, were revived, and the sentiment of loyalty to the emperor was actively propagated by the new government. |
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| | Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Nonetheless, for most of Japan's history, real power has been in the hands of the court nobility, the shoguns, the military, or, more recently, prime ministers. | | | Despite a major stock market crash in 1990, from which the country has not yet fully recovered, Japan remains a global economic power and has recently begun to re-emerge as a strategic power, lending non-combat support to the Gulf War, the UN efforts to rebuild Cambodia, and the 2003 invasion of Iraq. | | | Sometimes these returnees are not considered truly Japanese and sometimes suspected of being a descent of old feudal Burakumin "unclean" caste, a group of people known to have immigrated to South American countries, and subject to discrimination. |
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| | Open Directory - Regional: Asia: Japan: Society and Culture: History |
| | Association for the Advancement of Liberalist View of History - Provides a revisionist view of topics on 20th century Japanese history and military, reparations, comfort women, and their movement to remove war crime references in textbooks. | | | Ao's Japan - Overview and introduction to attractions, temples and shrines, brief guide of major cities, history, nuclear radiation and environmental issues. | | | History of Cultural Relations Between Europe and Japan - Sources, data, tables, texts related to the history of Euro-Japanese interchange, from Prof. |
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| | Okinawa |
| | This site is done by John Michael Purves who studied in Japan and wrote MA thesis: Island of Military Bases: A Contemporary Political History of Okinawa. | | | OKINAWA AND US MILITARY BASES - Okinawa has the largest number of US military bases in Japan. | | | OKINAWA IS NOT PART OF JAPAN- Nobumasa Sato explains why Okinawa is not part of Japan and should be again independent country. |
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| | Cuban History, Missle Crisis (3 of 4) |
| | Khrushchev insists that the United States comply with its agreements, and lift the military and economic blockade of Cuba, and asks that, in accordance with the requests of Cuba, the U.S. withdraw from its base in Guantanamo, Cuba. | | | The Joint Chiefs of Staff update their plans of a military invasion of Cuba based on new reconnaissance, and determine whether tactical nuclear weapons should still be used though Cuba's nuclear weapons are being dismantled. | | | In fact twenty nuclear warheads were actually in Cuba, though none of the warheads were ever put into the missiles (unlike the U.S. nuclear missiles in Japan, Taiwan, Turkey, Italy, and andtc.; which were fully armed and ready to fire). |
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| | Japanese History |
| | The Japanese military refuses, even after the US military drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki (August 9), and the Soviet Union enters the war against Japan (August 8). | | | But criticism of the US grows during the Cold War as the Americans reintroduce the persecution of communism, station more troops in Japan, and want Japan to establish its own self-defense force despite the anti-war article in the constitution. | | | In the second Sino-Japanese War (1937), Japanese forces occupy the coast of China and brutalizes the population, especially during the fall of the capital Nanking (only very recently did a full account of the atrocities in Nanking make it into Japanese textbooks). |
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| | The Militant - April 25, 2005 -- Thousands in China, Korea protest effort to whitewash Tokyo's crimes |
| | The new history books are part of an ideological campaign by Tokyo to paint Nippon nationalism in a positive light as the rulers of Japan are rearming and preparing to use their military might again in the region—largely to face China—as a junior partner to their U.S. ally. | | | The Japanese government is using the campaign as part of pressing to extend the use of its military abroad today. | | | This year the Japanese government is renaming it “Showa Day,” to explicitly commemorate the birthday of Hirohito, who led Japan during its conquest of Asia and is a revered figure in the Japanese rightwing. |
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| | War and Economic History |
| | During the Cold War, high military spending contributed (among other causes) to the economic stagnation of the Soviet Union and the collapse of North Korea, whereas low military spending relative to GDP contributed to Japan's growth and innovation. | | | The shadow of war lies across economic history, influencing its pace and direction, and war continues to both shape economic developments and respond to them. | | | During slack economic times, such as the Great Depression of the 1930s, military spending and war mobilization can increase capacity utilization, reduce unemployment (through conscription), and generally induce patriotic citizens to work harder for less compensation. |
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| | Ryukyu Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | However, the Qing Empire was weakened itself from the invasions of the Western powers and Japan; therefore, Ryukyu's request for sending military protection was not granted. | | | Today, there are a number of issues arising from the Ryukyus' history. | | | After Japan occupied Ryukyu, there was a series of massacres by the Japanese army that killed a major proportion of the Ryukyuan population, in order to clear the Ryukyans' strong Chinese roots, anti-Japan emotions, and common favors for China. |
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| | History of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The "feudal" period of Japanese history, dominated by the powerful regional families (daimyo) and the military rule of warlords (shogun), stretched from the twelfth through the nineteenth centuries. | | | The most traumatic event of the period was the Mongol Invasions of Japan between 1272 and 1281, in which massive Mongol forces with superior naval technology and weaponry attempted a full-scale invasion of the Japanese islands. | | | Civil leaders offered political compromises in the form of Hakko Ichiu and the Amau Doctrine, dubbed the "Japanese Monroe Doctrine" that would have given the Japanese free reign with regards to war with China. |
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| | Okinawa Prefecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | On May 15, 1972, Okinawa once again became part of Japan, although to this day the US maintains a large military presence there: more than 40,000 US military personnel and dependents, including 17,600 Marines, are still based there. | | | Due to its location and history, Okinawa is also more ethnically diverse than other parts of Japan. | | | The islands that now make up Okinawa Prefecture were formerly not part of Japan, but part of an independent nation called the Ryūkyū Kingdom. |
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| | Okinawan History and Karate-do |
| | As the American military “island hopped” its way toward the Japanese mainland, the decision was made by the Japanese Army to fight a war of attrition on Okinawa, to delay the American invasion of the Main Islands of Japan. | | | Likewise, as Shoshin Nagamine notes in his book on the myths and history of Okinawan karate, Satsuma grappling and sumo wresting had an impact on karate and prompted the development of a distinctive kind of Okinawan wrestling called "tegumi". | | | Okinawa is largest of the Ryukyu Islands, located several hundred miles east of southern China; several hundred miles south of the main islands of Japan; and several hundred miles north of the island of Taiwan. |
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| | BLACK SHOGUN: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE AFRICAN PRESENCE IN EARLY JAPAN |
| | Of the Black people of early Japan, the most picturesque single figure was Sakanouye no Tamuramaro, a warrior symbolized in Japanese history as a "paragon of military virtues," and a man who has captured the attention of some of the most distinguished scholars of twentieth century America. | | | The samurai have been called the knights or warrior class of Medieval Japan and the history of the samurai is very much the history of Japan itself. | | | He was prominent during the rule of the Japanese Emperor Kwammu, who reigned from 782- 806 A.D." In 1989 Dr. Mark Hyman authored a booklet entitled Black Shogun of Japan in which he stated that "The fact remains that Sakanouye Tamuramaro was an African. |
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| | Directory - Regional: Asia: Japan: Society and Culture: History |
| | Association for the Advancement of Liberalist View of History · cached · Provides a revisionist view of topics on 20th century Japanese history and military, reparations, comfort women, and their movement to remove war crime references in textbooks. | | | Ao's Japan · cached · Overview and introduction to attractions, temples and shrines, brief guide of major cities, history, nuclear radiation and environmental issues. | | | Center for Research and Documentation on Japan's War Responsibility (JWRC) · cached · A scholarly journal published four times a year to inform readers of up-to-date information on various issues on Japanese war responsibility. |
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| | My Okinawa Library - Page Two |
| | Brief presentation of the early history of Okinawa's struggle with its dual allegiance to China and Japan, its trade and culture. | | | Abbreviated discussions follow regarding someof the history of Ryukyu and Okinawa, the American occupation, reversion and struggles after the return of Okinawa to Japan. | | | Okinawa aside, there are tons of other aspects of growing up as a military brat that I can clearly associate with. |
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