... was tempestuous and the high winds would cause numerous mariners were swept overboard. Eventually their journey was a success and the men were prepared to fight against the Americans. At around 8 in the morning, Japanese planes covered the Pearl Harbor sky. The aerial attack was led by Lieutenant Commander Mitsuo Fuchida. He was considered to be very proficient at high-level bombing, which ... the Pacific Fleet. Nine main ships were destroyed. The only ships that were refurbished post-Pearl Harbor were the USS Arizona and USS Nevada. While the Japanese Imperial Army returned home in cel...

• Word Count: 1943
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: High School

... workers are for the most part individualist. They prefer to act independently and try to be as self-sufficient as possible. While we can easily find Japanese workers sit together singing the company's traditional song, Americans view this action as such a culture of tribe. Secondly, although people in the two countries both have a strong sense of nationalism, there are many racial conflicts ... resigned than U.S counterparts. Some of them are even married to their company for a lifetime. This does not mean to say that American workers are less hard working than the Japanese, but the Ame...

• Word Count: 1834
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... withdrawal from China and Indo-China, these terms were unacceptable to the Japanese. After a delay due to a change of Cabinet, on November 30, the Japanese Emperor gave his assent to the plans for war. The Americans, who had broken the Japanese diplomatic code, were fully aware of these events, but they did not ... along with nine submariners. Eighteen ships were sunk or damaged, and 174 aircrafts were destroyed. The Japanese lost a total of 29 aircrafts, nine from the first wave and twenty from the second. The Americans were so determined to recover from the actions of this day that only...

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... of its officers. " (Origins of the 442nd). After the study by the military board, President Roosevelt approved in February 1943 the formation of Japanese Americans into fighting units. One of these units, the 442nd Regiment, consisted of Japanese Americans who wanted to prove their loyalty to the United States.  This unit adopted the motto "Remember Pearl Harbor ". This motto is a testimony of ... proved to be as successful as other American units during World War II despite facing racial discrimination and stereotypes. Unlike Japanese Americans, African Americans did not face suspicion ...

• Word Count: 1509
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... destroyers were supposed to return to Pearl Harbor at 6:00 am but were delayed by a storm. Every other plan had seemed to go well for the Japanese though and havoc was spread throughout the island. The Americans were indeed surprised and shocked with the attack. They were no where near ready or prepared for this type of battle forced upon them. The ... and in return could not be reapaired with the absence of the repair unit. Nevertheless, Yamamoto and Fuchida were pleased with their devastation of the Americans. It had seemed that the troubles with the U.S were over. The Japanese had on...

• Word Count: 2110
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... their liberty and property taken away. Not a very good thought right? However, a team known as the "442nd Regimental Combat Team," consisting of Japanese Americans, is formed. Despite all of the harsh doings and controversy towards them, they still decide to fight for their citizen country, the United States. ... "4C, non-draftable" (Byrne, Joe. Page 1). The combat team was formed on February 1, 1943, after the government reversed its decision on the Japanese Americans fighting in the war (Byrne, Joe. Page 1). After many of the team's accomplishments, they were recognized as the most "d...

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... it secretly positioned a powerful aircraft carrier strike force for a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet at its Pearl Harbor base in Hawaii, the Japanese government had ordered its envoys in Washington to engage the Americans in intensive diplomatic negotiations. World War II came to America's Hawaiian Islands shortly before 8 a.m on 7 December 1941. It was a quiet Sunday morning. ... Fleet. There had been no prior declaration of war. Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, most Americans did not want to become involved in Nazi Germany's war against Great Britain. The treach...

• Word Count: 1961
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... many cases were described as subhuman and depicted in cartoons as animals such as monkeys. Americans were depicted in a similar manner by the Japanese cartoonists. Various cartoons typified the kind of racist attitudes among the public. A cartoon displaying a "Japanese Hunting License" refers to the Japanese as a rat, calling it a "savage beast . . . a vicious animal . . . a skunk in appearance" that "has ... myopic." One of the more famous examples of racism was the internment of Japanese Americans. It occurred mostly on the basis of speculation amongst high-ranking officials. The Japa...

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... the bombings of Pearl Harbor and sought revenge. The attack was "behind the back" many people said. Americans awoke to an attack on December 7th, 1941. A massive attack by the Japanese was unleashed upon the U.S. in the Hawaiian Islands at Pearl Harbor. "I was sixteen years old, employed as a pipe fitter apprentice at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard. On December 7, 1941, oh, around 8: ... brought up the word "conentration camp" which scared many of them. So many Americans were so mad at the Japanese that they started to call them "Japs" and started to make posters of them being a snake and bitin...

• Word Count: 1514
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... guard had to defend themselves in pajamas and night wear. They used anti- aircraft guns in an attempt to stop and hold off the Japanese from their attack.(Farago, 320) They were trying to do everything in their power to soften the blow of the attack. Soon after a ... two thousand four hundred (2,400) Americans that were killed, one thousand three hundred(1,300) wounded, and one thousand(1,000) missing.(Us Marines at Pearl Harbor, 3) Japanese losses were fewer than one hundred casualties, twenty nine planes, and five midget submarines. The Japanese had totally destroyed the United States ...

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... conquests, the bombing of Pearl Harbor propelled the US and Japan into a Pacific war. The Americans could not believe that the Japanese had the nerve to bomb their military base, and over the next four years, the Americans secretly sought a way of revenge. During the war, the people of Japan had created ... desperately optimistic rumors for themselves. It is almost as if they had invented a world of fantasy. But this world of fantasy was really a world of deception. The Japanese had convinced themselves that ... had almost won the war and they wanted to finish the battle on home soil. If...

• Word Count: 2436
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... rewards outweighed the risks. It was not until the mid-April 1942 Doolittle raid over Tokyo that Americans had a sense that the United States was striking back at the Japanese. United States forces halted the Japanese advance in the Coral Sea in early May and by early June inflicted serious damage on the ... forces had yet to engage significant Japanese ground forces. By mid-August, American aircraft had begun participating in bombing raids on the European continent., while simultaneously an American ground force was being massed for the eventual invasion of the European continent. Altho...

• Word Count: 2341
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... Headquarters in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941. The background of the attack is told; in quite even fashion no less, from both that American and Japanese sides. Retelling history is a tough task in and of itself, but trying to accurately portray it on a binational level is another ball of wax. Directors ... lead to the bombing of Pearl Harbor from both sides. This is essentially two films that slowly intertwine to tell one story. We see the Japanese preparing for the attack, first discussing their reasons for the attack, then testing their bombers, and finally making their fina...

• Word Count: 1709
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... way of this plan was the threat posed by the U.S. Pacific fleet stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the leader of the Japanese fleet, was the mastermind behind the plan to cripple the U.S. fleet. Yamamoto wanted to disable the U.S. Pacific fleet by destroying enough ships, ... D. Roosevelt did after the attack on Pearl Harbor was issue Executive Order 9066. This called for the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese-Americans for up to four years, most of which were legal U.S. citizens. The camps were enclosed shelters that were guarded by military. The ... conditions...

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... was that the hearts of many civilians had been burned out as well as their cities." What Reischauer said is probably correct because many Japanese civilians were presumably so shocked at what surrounded them that they did not know what to do in this astonishing situation. Because of the war ... the attack left Japan in a time for a major recovery. The destruction from the war is one of major items that will go down in Japanese history forever. The United States, the nation which caused this frightful and fatal period, engaged in Japan from the day after the releasing of the bomb ... Uni...

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... figure out how to make it work. There was not this fear with Japan. Also a revenge factor was set in the heart of Americans ever since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The American citizens were behind using the bomb because they were tired of the war. It had been five ... years and many had not seen their loved ones and were afraid they would not ever again if they had to invade Japan's mainland. Americans were ... diary entry from 28 July 1945 by U.S. Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal that describes Secretary of State James F. Byrnes as 'most anxious to get the Japanese affair ...

• Word Count: 2005
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... Japan was trying to gain an empire in Asia by attacking areas such as Manchuria, French Indochina and many parts of Northern China. The Japanese militarists slaughtered about 5,890,000 Chinese during this time in World War II. They were unrighteous by going area-to-area raping thousands of ... would agree after defeating Germany that they would help us fight Japan and in return get land that they had lost in the Russo-Japanese war in 1904. Idealistically the United States should have entered war with England against Germany and Russia pre WWII. The Germans and Russians ... had no just ...

• Word Count: 1260
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... it often had very different experiences. This is illustrated very well in the autobiographies of two men who were a product of this period in Japanese history. Fukuzawa Yukichi and Kayano Shigeru were both men who were directly affected by the Meiji Restoration. Fukuzawa was a low ranking samurai under ... sharply contrasted by the life story of Kayano Shigeru. Kayano was born on the northernmost Japanese island of Hokkaido and was a member of Japan's ethnic minority, the Ainu, which are often compared to Native Americans of North and South America. While Fukuzawa Yukichi was one of the ...

• Word Count: 1669
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... Hiroshima, as it turns out, was no exception. Rooted in the nineteenth century, anti-Asian prejudice contributed to the way Americans quickly radicalized the Pacific war. When the first Chinese immigrants arrived, they were condemned as the "yellow peril." Then came the Japanese immigrants. They, too, found themselves the targets of stereotyping discrimination, violence, and exclusion that would lead to the internment ... Hitler and the Nazis, not the German people. In the pacific, on the other hand, American anger was generally aimed at an entire people; the "Japs." During the war, the J...

• Word Count: 1509
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... Eastern Asia, Indo China and the Western Pacific. In July of 1940, the United States placed an embargo on materials exported to Japan, including oil, in the hope of curbing Japanese expansionism. America's determination to remain isolated from the World War II changed abruptly, following Japan's "surprise attack" on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Tensions increased between the ... countries since then as Americans expanded conventional bombing techniques and tightened their increasingly successful naval blockade. The Japanese began the stock piling of aircraft, amassed a giant conscri...

• Word Count: 1599
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... the day that went down in infamy". Hiroshima Diary, written by Dr. Michihiko Hachiya, is a journal that records many experiences of the Japanese in Hiroshima on the day of and the days immediately following the bombing. The diary is both intellectually stimulating and emotionally moving, as Hachiya ... possibly caused by my Americanized identity. A different type of personal embarrassment was imposed upon me when I read some of the reactions of the Japanese to American troops in the days following the bombing. Hachiya, after meeting with troops at his hospital, relates in his diary how ...

• Word Count: 1909
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate