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  Lever of Empire
This book, the first full account of Japan's financial history and the Japanese gold standard in the pivotal years before World War II, provides a new perspective on the global political dynamics of the era by placing Japan, rather than Europe, at the center of the story.
His search for answers stretches from Edo to London to the ragged borderlands of the Japanese empire and from the eighteenth century to the 1950s, integrating political and monetary analysis to shed light on the complex dynamics of money, empire, and global hegemony.
His detailed and broad ranging account illuminates a range of issues including Japan's involvement in the economic dynamics that shook interwar Europe, the character of U.S. isolationism, and the rise of fascism as an international phenomenon.
www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/10363.html   (357 words)

  
  Japan information - Search.com
However, the Japanese population is rapidly aging, the effect of a postwar baby boom followed by a decrease in births in the latter part of the 20th century.
The Japanese people's concern towards religion is mostly related to mythology, traditions, and neighborhood activities rather than the source of morality or the guideline for one's life, for which sometimes Confucianism, or even Taoism, tends to serve as the basis for the moral code.
The Japanese language is an agglutinative language distinguished by a system of honorifics reflecting the hierarchical nature of Japanese society, with verb forms and particular vocabulary which indicate the relative status of speaker and listener.
www.search.com /reference/Japan   (5182 words)

  
 UCLA Center for East Asian Studies:  Meiji-era Japanese Constitution, 1889
Japanese subjects may, according to qualifications determined in laws or ordinances, be appointed to civil or military or any other public offices equally.
Japanese subjects shall have the liberty of abode and of changing the same within the limits of the law.
Japanese subjects may present petitions, by observing the proper forms of respect, and by complying with the rules specially provided for the same.
www.isop.ucla.edu /eas/documents/japan1889meijiconstitution.htm   (2887 words)

  
 AAS Abstracts: Japan Session 147   (Site not responding. Last check: )
From economic to strategic to social imperialism, from the notion of "informal empire" to the most recent debate surrounding "cultural imperialism," historians continue to probe the causes of European expansion and domination in the l9th and 20th centuries as central to the history of national development and international conflict that defines the modern age.
While rarely a party to this debate, Japanese historians have long sustained a discussion of their own on Japanese imperialism that has stressed the internally generated semi feudal and material origins of expansion.
Japan's pursuit of empire was neither a "logical" nor instinctive response to external events but a conscious tailoring of circumstances for geopolitical and political aims that required an active and sustained commitment by Tokyo's empire builders.
www.aasianst.org /absts/1995abst/japan/jses147.htm   (1083 words)

  
 Imperial Japanese Armed Forces Japan Alternate History
The defence of the Greater Japanese Empire and the protection of its sovereignty, territorial indivisibility and inviolability, are entrusted to the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces..."
The Imperial Japanese Armed Forces (IJAF) are primarily responsible for external defense of Japan and its allies in East Asia.
Japanese nuclear deterrence, but the Ministry has delegated the effective control to the Navy.
www.angelfire.com /gundam/japanese_empire/altjap/ijaf.htm   (684 words)

  
 Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Japanese law was historically heavily influenced by Chinese law and developed independently during the Edo period through texts such as Kujikata Osadamegaki, but has been largely based on the civil law of Germany since the late 19th century.
However, the Japanese population is rapidly aging, the effect of a postwar baby boom followed by a decrease in births in the latter part of the 20th century.
The Japanese language is an agglutinative language distinguished by a system of honorifics reflecting the hierarchical nature of Japanese society, with verb forms and particular vocabulary which indicate the relative status of speaker and listener.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japan   (6583 words)

  
 Set of 4 Vintage Japanese Prints circa 1920 Vintage Japanese Porcelain Cream and Sugar Dishes Early Japanese bronze ...
"Vintage Japanese Porcelain Cream and Sugar Dishes" The cream dish measures 5 and one quarter inches widest and is 4 inches deep and measures 3 and three quarter inches tallest at the handle.
The sugar dish measures 6 inches from handle to handle, is 4 and one quarter inches deep and measures 3 and three quarter inches highest at the handles.
Antique Japanese Woodblock Print, this Antique Japanese Woodblock Print we believe was done by artist Kuni Yoshi c1870.
japanese.oneofakindantiques.com   (659 words)

  
 BBC - History - Japan's Quest for Empire 1931 - 1945
When the Japanese Kwantung Army (also known as the Guandong Army) contrived to invade Manchuria on 18 September 1931, it unleashed military and political forces which led ultimately to the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.
This was in reaction to the findings of the Lytton Commission, which had upheld China's appeal against Japanese aggression, thus leaving Japan effectively isolated in the world.
By this time, however, the Japanese had successfully detached Manchuria from the rest of China, creating the puppet state of Manchukuo under the deposed Qing emperor Pu Yi.
www.bbc.co.uk /history/worldwars/wwtwo/japan_quest_empire_01.shtml   (314 words)

  
 Book: Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire - UsingEnglish.com
Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire is an impeccably written analysis of the last months of the Pacific War and the unfolding of the American air campaign over Japan.
Frank concludes that the emperor and the Japanese military were far from ready to surrender, and that the decision to use the atom bomb probably saved millions of lives, not only Allied but Japanese and other Asian lives, also--perhaps a hundred thousand Chinese were dying each month under Japanese occupation.
The effects of the bomb worked on many levels, even lending faces to the Japanese militarists, who could convince themselves that they were defeated not by a lack of spiritual power but by superior science.
www.usingenglish.com /amazon/us/0141001461.html   (377 words)

  
 Japanese Empire
In particular, Britain through its enormously large and powerful Empire, the Netherlands with their extensive interests in the Dutch East Indies, and the US exerted enormous influence over many South East Asian countries.
The concept of a “New Order” in East Asia was central to Japanese military thinking, leading to the declaration of The Great East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere presaging the growth of the Japanese Empire in SE Asia.
This would be a valuable source of raw materials for the Japanese economy (Malaya supplied half of the world’s tin and one third of its rubber).
www.fepow-memorial.org.uk /japanese_empire.htm   (698 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire: Books: Richard B. Frank
Frank concludes that the emperor and the Japanese military were far from ready to surrender, and that the decision to use the atom bomb probably saved millions of lives, not only Allied but Japanese and other Asian lives, also--perhaps a hundred thousand Chinese were dying each month under Japanese occupation.
The premise behind this excellent history of the concluding stages of WWII in the Pacific is that the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has cast a light so bright that it has blinded historians to many of the political, diplomatic and military realities that existed before August 6, 1945.
Though they knew the war was lost, Japanese military strategists believed their preparations were sufficient to compel the Allies to offer more generous terms on which the war might end.
www.amazon.com /Downfall-End-Imperial-Japanese-Empire/dp/0141001461   (1009 words)

  
 Korean Connections to the Japanese Empire?
I should mention that this kind of speculation is not welcomed by many Japanese people, who naturally accept the fact that the Japanese people and their Emperors have descended in an unbroken line, at least back to the turn of the millenium, if not back to the Sun Goddess at the beginnings of Time.
My background is in Japanese culture and language; I've lived in Japan for four years and have a great appreciation for their traditions and history.
Yamato was part of the heartland of the Japanese Imperial dynasty, just east of Naniha, but (at least by the time of the writing of the chronicles) was also used as the name for the empire ruled by the Japanese emperors.
www.ease.com /~randyj/rjjingu.htm   (2468 words)

  
 Total Quality Japanese: Japanese as an International Language -- Past and Present
As I spoke Japanese, he assumed I too must be a Japanese, although perhaps a slightly different kind than he had met up to that time.
In Korea, annexed in 1910, Japanese was not so widely spoken as on Taiwan, which Japan acquired from China in 1895 as a spoil of war.
Japanese is still spoken in Korea by an older generation, usually members of the upper class although rarely in public.
www.cic.sfu.ca /tqj/JapaneseStudy/interLang.html   (980 words)

  
 Japan's Bridge to China: The Anglo-Japanese Alliance of 1902 - All Empires
Important indemnities and trade concessions had come of these events, as had recognition of Japanese interests in "Corea." Japan was looked upon as distant and exotic, and not as a great power, but her six modern battleships, engineered, built and armed in British yards, constituted the strongest fleet in the Far East in 1901.
Negotiated in the autumn of 1901 and finalized early in 1902, Great Britain made her first formal military alliance with the Japanese Empire; an alliance that was not fateful for the future of Britain, but for the future of East Asia.
The Japanese army and navy were in favor because of the backing of a powerful ally in case Japan were attacked by Russia.
www.allempires.com /article/index.php?q=anglo_japanese_alliance   (1491 words)

  
 Pravda.RU:In Japan's Heart, the Empire Lives   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Representing the Japanese side, the act was signed by Mamoru Shigemitsu, who was Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Affairs of Eastern Asia, and by commander of the General Staff, General Umedzu.
Japanese authorities recognized the inevitability of their defeat at the beginning of 1945.
The Japanese government planned to use the Soviet Union to suit its own ends in August 1944 already, in case Germany was defeated, or a separate peace treaty was concluded.
newsfromrussia.com /main/2002/11/12/39399_.html   (2270 words)

  
 Empire of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Empire of Greater Japan (Kyūjitai: 大日本帝國; Shinjitai: 大日本帝国; pronounced Dai Nippon Teikoku), Empire of Japan, Imperial Japan, or the Japanese Empire all refer to Japan under the Constitution of the Empire of Japan from November 9, 1867 to September 2, 1945.
The Empire of Japan surrendered to the Allies on September 2, 1945 after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Although it was in the 1889 Constitution of the Empire of Japan that the title Empire of Japan was officially used for the first time, it was not until 1936 that the official title of the country was legalized.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_Empire   (6628 words)

  
 (JAPANESE VS. ARMENIANS) Tall Armenian Tale: The Other Side of the Falsified Genocide   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Japanese families will be loaded up, taken to segregation camps, registered, and given numbered tags that will be used to identify them and their belongings.
The difference: The Japanese were largely not given the chance to enlist, as soon as Pearl Harbor forced Americans to enter the war.
In his summary Ringle concluded that the "Japanese Problem" had been distorted largely because of the physical characteristics of the people and should be handled based on the individual, regardless of citizenship, and not on race.
www.tallarmeniantale.com /japanese.htm   (4536 words)

  
 Reading: Prelude to Incarceration
So, a Japanese American born of Japanese parents, nurtured upon Japanese traditions, living in a transplanted Japanese atmosphere and thoroughly inoculated with Japanese...ideals, notwithstanding his nominal brand of accidental citizenship almost inevitably and with the rarest exceptions grows up to be a Japanese, and not an American....
Fear of Japanese American subversion stemmed in large part from notions of the "yellow peril," a term used to describe the dangers of the United States being "overwhelmed by waves of yellow [i.e., Asian] soldiers aided by alien enemies within the gates."Concentration Camps USA (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972) p.
The words "Japanese" or "Japanese Americans" did not appear in the order, but it was they, and they alone, who felt its sting.
www.densho.org /learning/spice/lesson3/3reading3.asp   (2412 words)

  
 The Russo Japanese War and Boy's Own Adventure Stories
The Russo Japanese War was an imperial conflict waged between two empires on the steppes of Manchuria.
Bob is captured by Cossacks, escapes, falls in with a band of Manchus, the leader of who is an old enemy of Kobo, is besieged with Kobo in a Korean temple and after defeating the besiegers reaches the army of General Kuroki in time for the Battle of the Yalu.
Brown is the victim of a conspiracy to connect him with the betrayal of certain military secrets to the Japanese; he suddenly disappears, and his son Jack is left friendless in Moukden.
www.russojapanesewar.com /boys-own.html   (1522 words)

  
 All Empires History Forum: Legacy of Japanese colonial rule in Korea and Taiwan   (Site not responding. Last check: )
First, the Japanese colonial rule over Korea was much more ruthless and complete than that over Taiwan, thanks to Korea's greater strategic importance to Japan (because of its proximity and its much larger population).
If you ask today's Taiwanese their opinion on Japanese colonial rule, you would most probably get some very unfavorable response from those who are either descendants of or themselves immigrants from Mainland China who came to Taiwan after the Communist takeover of the Mainland.
Those who tend to view the Japanese colonization more favorably - much more favorably - are the NATIVE Taiwanese who were themselves victims of the very brutal and dictatorial regime of Chiang kei-shek that fled to Taiwan after the Communist takeover.
www.allempires.com /forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8383   (1381 words)

  
 Time Traveler - Japanese Swords
Japanese Yari or Spear Head from the 1800s This is a three blade yari which has been sent back to Japan to be professionally clean and polished by a master sword polisher.
Japanese 15th Century Samurai Wakizashi Sword, This old sword blade is from the early 1400s but was cut down to a wakizashi sometime in the 17th or 18th century cutting off the signature section.
S-J41 Rare Japanese High Official's Tachi Sword, This Sword has a very bright and clean 30 1/2"long blade, with heavey engraved dragon on it, the tsuba is an early high quality issue.
www.johnnyg.westhost.com /swords-japanese-3.html   (380 words)

  
 The Empire of the Rising Sun
Traditionally, the Japanese islands were the easternmost point of the Asia.
The Japanese people call their islands the “Land of the Rising Sun” because it seems the sun rises from Japan, then spreads across the rest of Asia.
The Japanese believed that it was their destiny to liberate the people of Asia from European control.
www.mrdowling.com /706-risingsun.html   (322 words)

  
 Mr. Akashi's talk on Japan and UN
Japanese people who were bone after World War II have been enjoying peace without wars.
He said the policy of the Japanese government is consistent to the UN constitution.
Japanese people only see the hierarchy of the countries, which is the old style of looking at the world.
www.csi.ad.jp /ABOMB/Akashi.html   (773 words)

  
 Pearl Harbor Raid, 7 December 1941
From then on, as the desperate Japanese schemed to seize the oil and mineral-rich East Indies and Southeast Asia, a Pacific war was virtually inevitable.
Soon after, Japanese planes eliminated much of the American air force in the Philippines, and a Japanese Army was ashore in Malaya.
Japanese writing in lower right states that the image was reproduced by authorization of the Navy Ministry.
www.history.navy.mil /photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/pearlhbr.htm   (1497 words)

  
 Japanese Medals of WW1 and WW2
The award is bestowed to armed forces personnel who saw active service both in Japan and China between 11 June and November of 1900.It is 30mm in diameter of coppered bronze, with a chrysanthemum crest, the "ho-o" (a peacock-like bird) and "war medal" characters in the obverse.
The 1914-15 type was awarded to Japanese personnel who captured the German colony of Tsing-Tao and the German held Pacific islands in 1914-15.
The 1914-20 type was awarded to Japanese who participated in the 1917-18 actions of WWI where Japanese were present (the destroyer squadrons in the Mediterranean) and to those that disembarked in Siberia after the Bolshevik Revolution occupying Vladivostok until 1922.
www.diggerhistory.info /pages-medals/jap_medals.htm   (514 words)

  
 Inventory of Conflict and Environment (ICE), Japanese Divine Wind
The Mongolian empire had reached its height, while the isolated Japanese empire was divided by internal conflicts.
For the Mongolian empire, however, the defeat at the hands of the ‘divine wind’ was considered the beginning of its decline.
The Japanese islands are situated in the northern Pacific Ocean, along the Eastern coast of Asia.
www.american.edu /ted/ice/divine-wind.htm   (3313 words)

  
 Opium Empire: Japanese Imperialism and Drug Trafficking in Asia, 1895-1945, The Pacific Affairs - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: )
He counters that Japanese imperialism -- specifically contact with Chinese opium smokers and poppy fields through the acquisition of Taiwan, Korea and later Manchuria - was the cause of, but not the motivation for,Japan's subsequent involvement with opium.
He also convincingly argues that Japanese narcotics policies are primarily concerned with the acquisition of revenue and the creation of economically self-sufficient colonies.
The same can be said for the concern expressed by Japanese authorities that the sudden prohibition of opium smoking in the colonies would be inhumane for Chinese or Korean addicts or lead to popular resentment and uprisings.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3680/is_199810/ai_n8816182   (450 words)

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