Therefore, Japanese Canadians were stripped of their rights and interned based on fear and prejudice. In 1941 there were approximately twenty-two thousand Japanese Canadians that lived in British Columbia. On December 7th 1941, Japan attacked (Bogle, pp. 218-221)Pearl Harbor, an America naval base in Hawaii. Ottawa ordered that seizure of all Japanese fishing boats and made a hundred-mile-wide protected zone along the coast, in fear of a Japanese invasion.
Commodore Matthew Perry, commander of the mission to secure Pacific steamship lines on July 8, entered Tokyo Bay. To the Japanese the Americans were “… devils with white faces,” (page 21) and Americans thought of the Japanese as “subhuman, different, and slanty-eyed” yellow devils (page 137). These opposites in opinions of appearance and religion caused World War 2 to be fought brutally, which created this atrocious rivalry between these two countries. During World War 2, the Japanese and the Americans “had been culturally programmed to view each other as repulsive” (page 135). This made fighting on both sides “heartless” and beyond “human decency” (134).
The tragedies of the characters that are descriptively shown in the novel resemble the Japanese victims in the war. The Japanese suffered through periods of starvation and psychological devastation when the economy spiralled downwards. The Japanese economy suffered in their financial state because of their massive military spending – the cost of their imperialistic conquest. In the novel, Hiroshi could not understand why “Yanaka’s alleyways were crowded with women and children who lined up and waited for hours for meagre rations of rice and salted fish. (Tsukiyama 51)” Due to the second Sino-Japanese war in 1937, the Japanese had to cut down on imports to pay for the materials for railway and ship building industries.
In the end, the offensive cost Britain and the Empire 419,654 casualties, 125,000 of them dead. One other failure was just the staggering amounts of dead bodies from the British in a single day was just unbelievable! The British, instead of ordering a retreat, they just ran into the lines of machine guns, snipers and to sum it all up, they ran to their deaths with the Germans barely losing anyone at all. The British had no clue what they were doing unlike the French who did but they had no support whatsoever. Then, this is the biggest failure of them all according to me.
Experiences of men and women held as Prisoners of War by the Japanese In WW2 over 30,000 Australian men and women were captured as prisoners of war. 2/3 of these were captured by the Japanese at the beginning of 1942. The Australian War Memorial states that most of Australian Prisoners of War were captured at the battle of Singapore. According to Skwirk.com the Japanese General Hideki Tojo made a “no surrender” clause in the Japanese Military Code. This meant that the Japanese had little to no respect for the men and women they captured.
Amermenia The Ottoman Empire embarked on a campaign of genocide, targeting its own Armenian population in the middle of World War I. The first day the Ottomans set out and rounded up the first Armenian intellectuals to be killed was the 24th of April, 1915. During this, 1.5 million men, women and children were slaughtered. The significance of this genocide is that the not only was it the first genocide, but it caused the end to the Armenians 3000 year-old heritage. Nanjing, China When the Japanese invaded China, they looted, raped, killed the Chinese civilians of Nanjing, even after they had surrendered to Japan.
Extermination Camps Death Camps or also known as Extermination Camps were run and ruled by the Nazi’s in World War II. Theses camps were built and designed by hitler him self, in Germany during 1939 to 1945 to kill millions of innocent people (wikipedia,13 March 2015). The Holocaust was the systematic annihilation of six million Jews during the Nazi genocide - in 1933 nine million Jews lived in the 21 countries of Europe that would be occupied by Nazi Germany during World War 2. By 1945 two out of every three European Jews had been killed. Nazi party were trying to kill off all the jews and people that was not up to hitlers standards of a perfect human and this is also known as genocide.Genocide is the systematic killing of all racial,
This, along with other factors led to the troop’s morale being dangerously low. Another turning point in the war, the Tet offensive, had lowered the troops’ Morales because it had planted the seed to the US public that the US may not be victorious in their quest to end communism but the events in My Lai only worsened the situation. Now the troops were mistrusted by the US public and were starting to doubt if they could win the war themselves. Although the US public mistrusted the army they mistrusted the Government more. Although the My Lai massacre happened in 1968 it was only released to the public more than a
Maybe it wasn't right to send all Japanese Americans to camps, but U.S. officials didn't see much of an option. Another Effect is that U.S. finally decided to enter WWII when before they tried to stay neutral. Overall the Japanese sank or severely damaged 18 ships, including the 8 battleships, three light cruisers, and three destroyers. On the airfields the Japanese destroyed 161 American planes (Army 74, Navy 87) and seriously damaged 102 (Army 71, Navy
President Roosevelt authorized Executive Order 9066, which allowed the government to set aside camps in which they forced all Japan born or Japanese decent to live. This all steamed from the fear that all Japanese people were against the U.S and were considered our enemy even though many were born in the U.S. They did not care that they were U.S citizens and were put into concentration camps like animals and were in the process of being dehumanized. This was illegal, but everyone was blinded by fear and paranoia at the cost of the Japanese immigrants. I am afraid that if this had not been stopped in time, it would have been a similar tragedy to how Germany dehumanized the Jewish people and worked their way into committing genocide.