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	The Greater East Asia War And The A-Bomb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Greater East Asia War and the A-Bomb 3.1 The Greater East Asia war Along with expansion of its role as a military city, Hiroshima became a modern city.
		After the Manchurian Incident, the Shanghai Incident, and the outbreak of the full-scale war between Japan and China, the Japanese army and navy launched an attack on the northen Malay Peninsula and attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 8, 1941 (Japan time).
		However, after Japan, which had been victorious in the early stages of the war, lost the battle of Guadalcanal in 1943, the military situation grew steadily worse, and it appeared that the mainland of Japan would be turned into a battlefield.
	www.freeessays.cc /db/26/hte77.shtml (1568 words)

	Asia
		Over one hundred NGOs from across Asia and the Pacific gathered in Bangkok on March 23 to coordinate their position for the World Conference on Human Rights, just as Asian governments convened a few days later, also in Bangkok, for the regional preparatory meeting of the World Conference on Human Rights.
		The "Asian concept of human rights" was the creation of East Asian governments, and authoritarian East Asian governments at that, which felt they deserved praise, not censure, for their efforts to alleviate poverty, even if some civil rights were curtailed in the process.
		Commercial logging throughout Southeast Asia led to violence against individuals who protested the logging itself or who resisted being evicted from their land; but the borderline between state and private sector involvement was sometimes hard to distinguish.
	www.hrw.org /reports/1994/WR94/Asia.htm (2891 words)

	A Postwar View of the Greater East Asia War
		The growing willingness of the Japanese to reassess their nation's role in the "Greater East Asia War" received worldwide attention during the so-called "textbook controversy" of 1962, when new Japanese high school history textbooks were introduced that portrayed Japan's wartime role in a more positive light.
		Hayashi interprets the war as the last phase of a "100-Year East Asia War" that began at the end of the Tokugawa period [in the 1860s].
		The decision to wage war made by the General Staff Office of the Imperial Headquarters was a reaction to the American embargo on oil shipments to Japan.
	www.ihr.org /jhr/v06/v06p451_Hasegawa.html (6510 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Southeast Asia news and business from Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam
		The first East Asian summit of regional leaders in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday is a historic event whose future impact is likely to be as significant as the first Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit held in Bali in February 1976.
		It occurs as East Asia demonstrates a new vitality following its recovery from the trauma of the Asian financial meltdown and subsequent economic crisis in 1997-98 while the US is distracted by its commitment in Iraq.
		However, given East Asia's emerging cooperative security architecture, it would be in the American interest to support a larger political and security role for APEC.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/GL13Ae02.html (1386 words)

	Strategic Imperatives in East Asia
		East Asia is too vast, too varied, and much too significant to be dealt with comprehensively in the short time we have here.
		It is central to the stability of Asia, and the critical constant in the security calculus of governments across the Asia-Pacific region.
		As the world's leader, working with the nations of Asia toward capturing the hope of that future is both our challenge and our opportunity: our challenge because of its transcendent importance to our 21st century world; our opportunity because Asia's success will mean so much to America's own security and prosperity in that world.
	www.heritage.org /Research/AsiaandthePacific/HL605.cfm (4051 words)

	World War II
		During the war, Nazi Germany was also to pursue another aim, the elimination of European Jewry; please refer to the category "Casualties, civilian impact, and atrocities." Although Nazi Germany failed in conquering Lebensraum, it was more successful in the destruction of the Jewish population.
		The war triggered an international outcry and on December 14 the Soviet Union was expelled from the League of Nations.
		It was one of the bloodiest sieges of the war.
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	Asia
		War, work, and religion were three other themes running through human rights developments in the region during the year.
		In East Timor, attacks by guerrillas on army posts just before and after the May 29 elections sparked widespread arbitrary detention of young East Timorese men, often accompanied by torture, on the part of the Indonesian military; the guerrillas were also responsible for executions of civilians suspected of having links to Indonesian military intelligence.
		The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum steadfastly refused to examine human rights issues, although the Canadian government, as the 1997 host of APEC in Vancouver, provided some support for discussions about "civil society" in the various APEC working group meetings leading up to the Vancouver heads of state meeting.
	www.hrw.org /worldreport/Asia.htm (5491 words)

	East Asia & the Pacific \| Poverty and Growth Blog
		East Asia – a region that has transformed itself since the financial crisis of the 1990s by creating more competitive and innovative economies – must now turn to the urgent domestic challenges of inequality, social cohesion, corruption and environmental degradation arising from its success, a new World Bank report has found.
		A new publication by a World Bank team led by Chief Economist for East Asia and Pacific, Dr Homi Kharas and Economic Adviser, Dr Indermit Gill is the first comprehensive analysis of the new forces and challenges at play in the region since the Bank’s seminal report of 1993, The East Asian Miracle.
		The conference Asia 2015: Promoting Growth, Ending Poverty was held in March, organized by DFID, the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank.
	pgpblog.worldbank.org /regions/east_asia_the_pacific (1317 words)

	NEAS - Resources, Asia Pacific (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Economic Dynamism in the Asia-Pacific, Thompson, G. Economic Dynamism in the Asia Pacific examines the rise of the importance of the Pacific as an economic region, the sources of that rise, its future development and the consequences for the global economy.
		Asia Pacific Press is a specialist publisher based at the Australian National University in the Pacific School of Economics and Government.
		Pacific Asia is defined to comprise, in descending order of importance: China, Japan, the four Asian NIE's (newly industrialized economies, viz.: South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore), and ASEAN-5 (Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Brunei; minus the newly admitted Indochina states and Myanmar, the former Burma).
	neas.miis.edu /resources-asia-pacific.html (8631 words)

	Tojo's Broadcast on the Prosecution of the Greater East Asia War
		Such brilliant war results are truly dependent on the immovable fighting spirit and the (united strength) of the brilliant countries of Germany and Italy.
		In order to fight through the war to victory, it is exceedingly important to expand the strength of the armed forces and to establish security in the living conditions on a minimum basis, while carrying out a policy to protect the home front through the efforts of the people at home.
		In winning this great war over Britain and America, and in order to establish a new Greater East Asia with trained leaders as the backbone, men of fine characters who are fit to carry out the various tasks must be trained, and who could be admired by the world.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/ww2/tojo072742.html (2638 words)

	Travel to Hiroshima - Japan - Asia - History - WorldTravelGate.net®- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		In addition, two canals were built, the Hirataya in the east, and the Seito (over which the Takano Bridge was built) in the west, to serve as harbors.
		After the outbreak of the war, the air defense setup of the city was rapidly strengthened and was much stronger than in other cities.
		Since the war was still going on, it was urgent to restore the functions of the important military bases.
	www.asiatravelling.net /japan/hiroshima/hiroshima_history.htm (6047 words)

	Greater East Asia War - Japan Imperial Headquarters' Term for World War II
		Greater East Asia War - Japan Imperial Headquarters' Term for World War II The Greater East Asia War was a term used by Japan's Imperial General Headquarters to refer to the conflict that resulted from Japan's invasion of other nations in eastern Asia and the Pacific in the 1930s and early 1940s.
		As the United States was their ally, it was decided to attack the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, with carrier-based aircraft of the Combined Fleet.
		It is believed that the Imperial General Headquarters (Imperial GHQ) began planning the Greater East Asia War in April or May of 1941, by November their plans were essentially complete, modified only slightly over the next month.
	www.japan-101.com /history/greater_east_asia_war.htm (514 words)

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		Haslam, Jonathan, The Soviet Union and the Threat from the East, 1933-41: Moscow, Tokyo, and the Prelude to the Pacific War.
		Gotô, Ken'ichi, "Cooperation, Submission, and Resistance of Indigenous Elites of Southeast Asia in the Wartime Empire," in Duus, Myers, and Peattie, eds., The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931-1945.
		Hashikawa, BunO(o,‹), "Japanese Perspectives on Asia: From Dissociation to Coprosperity," in Akira Iriye, ed., The Chinese and the Japanese.
	www.wpunj.edu /history/courses/hist365/biblio.htm (5600 words)

	IFJ Asia-Pacific
		The research focused on six countries across Africa and Asia, India, the Philippines, Cambodia, Zambia, Senegal and Nigeria, indicates that HIV/AIDS reportage in affected regions is improving but that there is still significant work to be done.
		IFJ Asia director Jacqueline Park addressed a two-day gender and media summit in Colombo, Sri Lanka on March 13-14, 2006.
		IFJ Asia has prepared a comprehensive report on the impact and challenges for the media arising from the 26 December Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.
	www.ifj-asia.org (7322 words)

	The Heritage Foundation Research: Asia and the Pacific
		The Heritage Foundation Research: Asia and the Pacific
		The war on terrorism has not eclipsed East Asia's importance to the United States.
		America's interests in Asia are many and include trade and economic policies, alliances, and democratic reforms; but assuring peace in that region is the most important.
	www.heritage.org /Research/AsiaandthePacific (131 words)

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