The excerpt below is an excerpt from the diary of Commander Mitsuo Fuchida, an air commander during the Japanese attack on the US Pacific fleet on December 7, 1941.
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Tag Archives: Japan
America Eyes Asia
This letter from former President Theodore Roosevelt to Senator Philander C. Knox of Pennsylvania outlines Roosevelt’s view of the role Japan would play in world politics.
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The World Between Two Wars
The years between the two world wars–1919 and 1939–saw a number of crises.
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A Second Great War: The Atomic Bomb
The Second World War (1939-1945 in Europe, although some historians date the beginning of the global war with the Japanese annexation of Manchuria in 1931) saw even more destruction than the first.
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East Asia in the 16th Century
By the late 1500s, China’s Ming Dynasty had existed for nearly three centuries. As it had for centuries, China’s imperial government was based around a Confucian understanding of the importance of order and proper behavior.
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