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I agree with Lizzie in that the Emperor didn't want to admit the wrong doings of Japan and was instead a bit embarrassed by their actions. Though he expressed their "deepest sense of regret" ...

I think imprisonment served as punishment for the crimes that the two men did commit. Though Nogi Harumichi only seemed to be "following orders," I think imprisonment taught him that not eve ...

A name is everything! It helps define the purpose of your cause and what you're willing to sacrifice for it. Depending on the ideals that this name comes with, it helps to gain or lose followers and s ...

In first hand accounts, I think it is difficult to be objective while still remaining true to the facts of what happen. Like this first hand account, the person telling the story was clearly emotiona ...

I think the war was provoked by the China Incident of 1937 and war started due to that provocation. Because Chiang Kai-shek refused to give up the fight, Japan had no choice. They were willing to do w ...

Europe and America were just as responsible for Japanese imperialism as Japan was for itself. The West had acclaimed themselves as such great nations that Japan was practically dying to be apart of. T ...

Like the earlier reading said, Japan wanted to be respected the Westerners and seen as family and in doing that Japan adopted some things from them that weren't necessarily made for Japan and its idea ...

I don't think Fukuzawa was right in advising Japan to "leave Asia behind" despite the differences between the country and the continent. The lack of development in China and Korea should be ...

In the Conservation of Races reading I found the question, "What is race?", to be very important and one of the key factors in understanding identity. I think this question often blindsides ...

I see being an American as a good and bad thing in that sometimes the advantages outweigh the disadvantages with certain people. I don't particularly like being called an American due to the threat th ...

Just to give a response to where we left off in class about the economy's role in America.

I think that America is a very economic driven country with a money hungry society. The dependency on mon ...

To me, it seems like Francis is saying that the end of history is the point where we've reached our limits in government and have been so highly affected by material forces that we start to revert bac ...

I think that Bohr changed the discipline of science through his way of thinking about physics. He found out that the difficulty in the real world is the medium, language. Bohr came to a conclusion tha ...

Einstein's insight about light was that all motion is relative and that anyone can be at rest and measure all relative motion to themselves. It seemed that all Einstein cared about was the fact that t ...

The way Newton addressed the question of “what is light?” changed science because it basically changed the way people thought of light. He turned Aristotle’s idea that white light was pure on its side ...