... of the amount of material studied. Teachers do all the talking with no interaction of the students. The academic students study Japanese language, math, science, geography and history, art, civics foreign language, health and physical education, and home economics. Elective courses are limited to two courses per year and are selected to help prepare for the university entrance exam. In order ... poor areas. There is more financial support for schools in higher income neighborhoods than in lower income neighborhoods. Japanese education has strong principles in effort and hard work. Stude...

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... and Japan. Although the US supplied materials to the countries at war with Japan and Germany, she tried to stay neutral. A vast majority of Americans were opposed to entering the foreign wars, and Japan didn't want to start a war with the Western Powers anyway. Because the Western Powers were stronger, Japan had little chance of coming out of it in good ... War, under direct orders from Roosevelt, sent a "hostile action possible" warning to all Atlantic and Pacific military bases. Pearl Harbor was not mentioned as a likely target. On December 1, a message from Foreign Minister Togo to W...

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... to the countries at war with Japan and Germany, she tried to stay neutral. A vast majority of Americans were opposed to entering the foreign wars, and Japan didn't want to start a war with the Western Powers anyway. Because the Western Powers were stronger, Japan had little ... was a clever scheme, carefully orchestrated by Roosevelt. On January 27, 1940, a Peruvian envoy in Tokyo told a secretary in the US embassy that his intelligence sources said there was a war plan involving a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. This information was relayed to Roosevelt. On August 10, 1941, a top Bri...

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... of their banks rather than their former family holding companies. In 1945, SCAP (which exercised complete control of all exports and imports of goods and services as well as all foreign exchange transactions) directed the Japanese government to create a single government agency to account for and distribute the goods that SCAP itself imported into Japan and to receive and transfer all ... over Japanese industrial policy. During 1949 SCAP began a policy of transferring some of its own controlling and supervisory powers to the Japanese government. As a result of this the foreign control l...

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... which all add up to whether or not FDR knew of the attack on Pearl Harbor before it happened. It is known that the naval intelligence broke the Japanese diplomatic code and provided valuable information on Japan's foreign policies. The navy also had the radio frequency of the Japanese navy down to and knew were most of their ships were at or ... ...

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... as he was considered to be above such petty human politics, and second, the Japanese code of honor which puts death before dishonor. The Americans had intercepted messages from the Foreign Minister Togo, to Ambassador Sato expressing the desires of the Emperor for a peaceful end to the war, "[h]is Majesty the Emperor, mindful of the fact that the present war daily ... the war on the Allied side. So another alternative could have been to await the Russian entry into the war as an American ally. According to the War Department's Military Intelligence Division, the entry of Russia into the...

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