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Before the surrender, the Japanese government had been portraying Americans as savages who would rape and kill civilians if they ever won the war (I wonder where they got that idea?) (this is from oth ...

A whole lot of the idea of dying for personal honor or doing things for the country to recieve personal honor were just for that, personal honor. The country couldn't care less about if you lived or d ...

In both of these two cases, there were orders coming from the top down to these people. It wasn't for them quite as much a punishment for their own actions so much as a punishment for their intense in ...

Everything in history has a bias. There is no pure truth of what happened that exists in the telling of one account. This is not to say that primary sources are useless, in fact, quite to the contrary ...

I would say it starts with the Manchurian incident. If you look at studies of the Japanese involvement in the Second World War, you will see that quite often the invasion of China is considered part o ...

Japan sees the governments of the Western powers and due to their interest in the Western world they want to imitate this. They turn to Imperialism to accomplish this. We see the Japanese constitution ...

Looking at the text and the constitution, we can see quite clearly the repressive measures put in place by the government. There are laws that protect people from abuse, sure, but there is also a lot ...

Before I post this, I must warn you I reference a number of obscure pieces of culture you might or might not know.

I tend to agree with Lizzie. A (relatively) famous net comedian once pointed out t ...

As Mingkwan brought up, I feel that the religious advertisement is a bit off, just by the fact that the religion means different things to different people. Each advertisement bound to offend quite a ...