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	Nagasaki Prefecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nagasaki Prefecture, an unification of former provinces of Hizen, Tsushima, and Iki, has had close ties with foreign civilization for centuries.
		Nagasaki borders Saga Prefecture on the east, and is otherwise surrounded by water, including Ariake Bay, the Tsushima Straits, and the East China Sea.
		On March 1, 2005, the city of Isahaya and the towns of Tarami, Moriyama, Iimori, Takaki and Konagai merged to form the new city of Isahaya.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nagasaki_Prefecture (786 words)

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		Takaki asserts Truman was “inexperienced and insecure in his role as president, he found himself unable to say ‘no’” to determined officials, such as James Brynes.
		Takaki thinks an influencing factor in Truman’s decision to use atomic weapons against Japan was his desire to prove he was not a “sissy” to himself, to the U.S., and to the world at large.
		Takaki himself recognizes everyone is entitled to their own opinions, and not only that, but the right to express those opinions.
	www.danandmary.com /danand2/atomicreviewgoodan1.htm (829 words)

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		Takaki investigates the leading United States (personalities might be a more precise word) figures involved in the making and use of the atomic bomb through top secret military reports and private documents, including diaries and letters.
		Takaki asserts Truman was “inexperienced and insecure in his role as president (sic.), he found himself unable to say ‘no’” to determined officials, such as James Brynes.
		Takaki recognizes not only that people are entitled to their opinions, but they have the right to express those opinions.
	www.danandmary.com /danand2/atomicreviewgoodan12.htm (940 words)

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		Takaki successfully convinces the reader that both President Truman and General Marshall knew the actual casualty estimates were significantly lower.
		Takaki claims the Allies' demand for "unconditional surrender" was an important obstacle in procuring an early Japanese surrender.
		Takaki himself notes that the Japanese considered themselves "the sole superior race in the world," and routinely portrayed the Americans as "hairy, twisted-nosed savages" (Takaki, 72, 73).
	www.fiu.edu /~hisgsa/review_essay-Sebastian.htm (1822 words)

	Fat Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		[1] Because of Nagasaki's hilly terrain, the damage was somewhat less extensive than that in relatively flat Hiroshima.
		The mission plan for the second attack was nearly identical to that of the Hiroshima mission, with two B-29's flying an hour ahead as weather scouts and two additional B-29's in Sweeney's flight for instrumentation and photographic support of the mission.
		Aftering initially deciding that if Nagasaki were obscured on their arrival they would carry the bomb to Okinawa and dispose of it in the ocean if necessary, the weaponeer Navy Commander Frederick Ashworth decided that a radar approach would be used if the target was obscured.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fat_Man (2207 words)

	Amazon.de: Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb: English Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Takaki also contends that the President's readiness to use the bomb was linked to America's racial rage against the Japanese and to Truman's own racist attitudes.
		Takaki's Harry Truman will be unfamiliar to most readers: insecure, unable to say no to strong-willed officials such as Secretary of State James Byrnes, struggling to overcome his childhood identity as a sissy by means of macho behavior, suffering remorse over his historic decision.
		Takaki is a professor of ethnic studies at UC Berkeley.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0316831220 (812 words)

	Nagasaki Prefecture - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		On January 1, 2006, the towns of Fukushima and Takashima from Kitamatsura District merged into the city of Matsuura.
		On March 31, 2006, the towns of Kosaza and Uku from Kitamatsura District merged into the city of Sasebo.
		Nagasaki Prefecture, History, Geography, Subprefecture, Cities, Towns and villages, Mergers, Economy, Culture, Religion, Tourism, Prefectural symbols, External links, Nagasaki Prefecture and Kyushu region.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Nagasaki_Prefecture (821 words)

	Nagasaki Prefecture - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		During the 16th century, Catholic missionaries and traders from Portugal arrived and became active in Hirado and Nagasaki, which became a major center for foregin traders.
		The Christian belief in equality between men, however, did not comply with the political structure of Japan, and after being given free reign in Oda Nobunaga's period, the missionaries were forced out little by little, until finally, in the Tokugawa era, Christianity was banned.
		The City of Isahaya and the Towns of Tarami, Moriyama, Iimori, Takaki and Konagai were merged to form the new City of Isahaya.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Nagasaki_Prefecture (744 words)

	The Militant - 10/9/95 -- A-Bomb: Part Of U.S. Imperialist War Drive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Takaki points out that Tokyo exhorted Asians to unite in a race war against the white "brutes," "wild beasts," and "hairy savages" of Europe and the United States.
		Takaki puts forward the view that Truman's racism and psychological insecurities are the key to understanding why the U.S. government dropped A-bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
		Neither Takaki nor Gerson, while agreeing that nuclear weapons must be banned and dismantled, can suggest a realistic solution, other than placing political pressure on the governments with nuclear weapons.
	www.themilitant.com /1995/5937/5937_19.html (1764 words)

	An Interview With Ron Takaki
		Takaki also noted that the war in the Pacific was a racialized war on both sides.
		Takaki mentioned that he enjoyed the opportunity to speak at The Commonwealth Club in part because it gave him the chance to talk with veterans of World War II.
		Several years ago, Takaki was invited to speak at the opening conference for the D-Day Museum in New Orleans, where he spoke to a crowd of some 4,000 veterans, crowded into three ballrooms at the Hilton.
	www.commonwealthclub.org /archive/01/01-09takaki-interview.html (1861 words)

	Jessica Le (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Takaki is a strong advocator for affirmative actions (Ronald, screen 1).
		In the 2000 ballot, Ronald Takaki wrote a draft for the California Equality Initiative, which is a pro-affirmative action plan (Halford, screen 1).
		Takaki was also the faculty adviser to the Black Student Union at UCLA (Ronald, screen 1).
	www.sauguscenturions.com /klipfel/letakaki.html (3548 words)

	Hibakusha Wins in Nagasaki A-Bomb Matsuya Lawsuit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The court reconfirmed the Nagasaki District Court and the Fukuoka High Court rulings that Hideko Matsuya's disability was caused by radiation from the atomic bomb and ordered the Ministry to withdraw its rejection of Matsuya's application for official recognition of her disabilities as A-bomb induced.
		Also, Chieko Watanabe, hit by the A-bomb at 2.9 km from the Nagasaki blast center, which was in the same direction of the area where the Appellee was located, had her spine fractured under a steel beam of a collapsed factory.
		According to DS86, a total radiation dose of gamma rays and neutrons in the air in Nagasaki was 2.963 rad at 2.4 km from the blast center, and 2.092 rad at 2.5 km, and the dose from residual radiation was insignificant.
	www.ratical.org /radiation/Matsu-All2.html (5489 words)

	Amazon.ca: Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		As to Takaki's rather childish claim that racism was involved in the decision to use the bomb against Japan, he is obviously quite ignorant of the history of the bomb and the decision-making process.
		Takaki is also apparently ignorant of the blatant racism of Japan throughout the war.
		And Takaki is wrong again when he claims that the practice of collecting the ears of dead Japanese soldiers would never have been repeated in Europe where our opponent was white.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0316831220 (1684 words)

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		I had been Invited to the Nagasaki Kunchi (Festival).Later on I found out that the invitation had been a pretence to a meeting with the intention of arranging a marriage.
		My mother-in-law visited me from Nagasaki and told me to repay the debts from a pension she had received for their youngest son.
		I could not hide my Nagasaki accent but always said that I was from another part of the City.
	hibakusha.hyoho.com /Section2a.html (1553 words)

	Bombing_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In Nagasaki, roughly 74,000 people died of the bomb and its after-effects with the death toll from two bombings around 214,000 people.
		Nagasaki during World War II Urakami Tenshudo (Catholic Church in Nagasaki) in January, 1946, destroyed by the atomic bomb, the dome of the church having toppled off.
		To the north of Nagasaki there was a camp holding British prisoners of war, some of which were working in the coal mines and only found out about the bombing when they came to the surface.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Bombing_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki (8735 words)

	Editorial
		Multiculturalism is necessary in the curricula of universities across the nation, renowned scholar and historian Ronald Takaki stressed to his 800-person audience at the University of Washington's Kane Hall on April 25.
		Takaki spoke candidly about his beginnings in Hawaii, as a former surfer whose life was changed after meeting for the first time a Japanese American with the letters "Ph.D." at the end of his name.
		Takaki further emphasizes the importance of epistemology in history by examining the factors behind the use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the second World War.
	www.nwasianweekly.com /editorial/takaki.htm (709 words)

	Remembering Nagasaki: The Decision
		Falls Church, VA The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were absolutely essential to stop the spread of human suffering and death due to the fanatical nationalistic ravings of an imperialistic, non-elected, totalitarian regime.
		The countless millions who suffered and died at their command, and certainly the millions who would have been wounded or killed had an all-out invasion been carried out, were spared this by the use of the bombs.
		Hiroshima and Nagasaki are much on our minds and in exploring the background to the decision to drop the first atom bomb fifty years ago.
	www.exploratorium.edu /nagasaki/commentary/decision.html (4388 words)

	NSDL Metadata Record -- Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb
		In this book, Ronald Takaki reexamines the motives and rationale behind America?s use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
		Takaki rejects Truman?s post?war casualty estimates of half a million men for an Allied ground invasion.
		While the author assembles a fair amount of evidence for his case, he limits the decision almost entirely to Truman, and the psychology and fears that drove him.
	nsdl.org /mr/440378 (189 words)

	PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Spring 1996
		Takaki also takes umbrage over Truman's estimate of half-a-million lives saved by the bombs and emphasizes the lesser casualty estimates of some military leaders.
		So do I." Takaki tells us there was lots of racism then in the United States, in case we didn't know, and Harry Truman, despite some actions to the contrary, such as in integrating the military services after the war, was an example of that racism.
		More important, Alperovitz, Takaki, and Lifton and Mitchell fail to note that the atomic decision was made cleanly and properly by the civilian Commander in Chief of the armed forces in accordance with the Constitution.
	www.carlisle.army.mil /usawc/Parameters/96spring/sp-essay.htm (12957 words)

	Below is an example of a well-written research essay
		Three days later, Boxcar Betty, another B-29, hurled a plutonium bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki that was equivalent to 22,000 tons ofTNT (Seldefi and Seldefi 115; Feis 123; Allen and Polmar 261).
		It was from these islands that the bombimg of Japan localized, and also where the B-29 took of from to atomically bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
		The Japanese said they were prepared to lose 100 million civilian soldiers in defense of their homeland (Allen and Polmar 215-225; Takaki 22-23).
	www2.hawaii.edu /~weisser/research.htm (2461 words)

	Hiroshima
		The traditional view that of the U.S. officials responsible for the bombing and of their supporters is that the bomb was used for no other reason than to hasten the end of the war and save American lives, and it was fully justified.
		The destruction of Nagasaki, however, was useful for limiting Soviet gains in Asia and for justifying exclusive U.S. occupation of Japan.
		Nor is it the case that it required the destruction of inhabited cities to have a dramatic impact on the Japanese population and thus serve as an excuse for Japanese leaders.
	www.wpunj.edu /~newpol/issue21/shalom21.htm (11173 words)

	Free College Essays.com - Free Essays, Term Papers and Book Reports.
		There had been four cities chosen as possible targets: Hiroshima, Kokura, Nagasaki, and Niigata (Kyoto was the first choice until it was removed from the list by Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson).
		Nagasaki A dense column of smoke rises more than 60,000 feet into the air over the Japanese port of Nagasaki, the result of an atomic bomb, the second ever used in warfare, dropped on the industrial center August 8, 1945, from a U.S. B-29 Superfortress.
		Luckily for many civilians living in Nagasaki, though this atomic bomb was considered much stronger than the one exploded over Hiroshima, the terrain of Nagasaki prevented the bomb to do as much damage.
	www.free-college-essays.com /Physics/11787-Atomic_Bomb.html (1280 words)

	Isahaya Nagasaki guide
		Nagasaki, available at the train station, post office, etc., is a monthly schedule of happenings (festivals, sports events, etc.) throughout the prefecture (in Japanese).
		Both Nagasaki Compass (a church publication) and Nagasaki Beat are free monthly newsheets in English.
		Hamano-machi, in Nagasaki, is the place to see hundreds of beautiful kimono on this day, which marks the passage to adulthood and the right to smoke, drink, drive, and vote.
	spot.pcc.edu /~jsparks/ESOLClassLinks/Isahaya/IsahayaGuide.htm (19430 words)

	The dropping of a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Hartford Web Publishing is not the author of the documents in World History Archives and does not presume to validate their accuracy or authenticity nor to release their copyright.
		the evidence overwhelmingly indicates that the civilian populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were murdered, not to end World War II, but to launch what later came to be known as the cold war.
		Mistranslation of remarks by a wartime prime minister eventually led to the atom-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki toward the end of World War II, and the story of how can now be heard exactly as it was told.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/20/index-dba.html (315 words)

	Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In Nagasaki, roughly 74,000 people died of the bomb and its aftereffects with the death toll from two bombings around 214,000 people.
		Scheduled for August 11 against Kokura, the raid was moved forward to avoid a five day period of bad weather forecast to begin on August 10.
		In the opinion of the court, the act of dropping an atomic bomb on cities was at the time governed by international law found in the Hague Regulations on Land Warfare of 1907 and the Hague Draft Rules of Air Warfare of 1922–1923.
	en.explicatus.org /wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki (8618 words)

	Amazon.com: Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb: Books: Ronald Takaki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ethnic studies professor Takaki argues that racism and a desire to intimidate the Soviet Union were important factors in the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
		The bombing of Hiroshima was one of the pivotal events of the twentieth century, yet this controversial question remains unresolved.
		Takaki uses as his sources for these conclusions, magazine articles, letters to editors and anecdotal conversations with "real" Americans.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0316831247?v=glance (2236 words)

	Alsos: Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb
		Takaki quotes General Groves: “Russia was our enemy, and the [Manhattan] Project was conducted on that basis” (p.
		Takaki also blames Truman’s decision on anti-Asian racism.
		Takaki rejects Truman’s post-war casualty estimates of half a million men for an Allied ground invasion.
	alsos.wlu.edu /information.aspx?id=202&show=all (203 words)

	takaki17.htm
		The role of the university as the key institution in society dedicated to reason and understanding is made real by Dr. Takaki's work and the press of recent events.
		We bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki and when they still refused an unconditional surrender, we acquiesced and agreed to their conditional surrender.
		Takaki, R. A different mirror: A history of multicultural America.
	frontpage.uwsuper.edu /psychology/360/takaki17.htm (457 words)

	Nuclear War, Weapons of Mass Destruction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		About one-third of Nagasaki City was destroyed and 150,000 people killed or injured, and it was said at the time that this area would be devoid of vegetation for 75 years.
		Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki is an important step to recognizing the awesome and awful power that destroyed these cities and now threatens the future of humanity and all life with annihilation.
		On the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, August 9, Ground Zero conducted a daylong Vigil outside the main Bangor Sub Base gate from 9:00 A.M. until 5:00 P.M. Reflections and prayers were conducted throughout the day.
	www.omnicenter.org /warpeacecollection/nuclear.htm (14833 words)

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