the National Security Adviser to President Carter, argued that the United States must prevent the realization of "the age-long dream of Moscow to have direct
Kids enjoying Japanese writing near Burmese border in Thailand. Paying locals for their services (accommodation, transport, food), doesn‘t only support adults, but also their children, who often don’t attend school because the parents simply cannot afford it. Please, be mindful when giving cash...
To begin with, the process of removing National Socialism ideology from the social fabric of Germany was conceived long before the end of the war in Europe. In fact, the term “denazification” itself was coined in 1943 by the Pentagon as they began thinking about what post-war Germany leg...
This is merely people’s continued manifestation of xenophobic bullying based on a desire to “do” something but with little understanding of how best to direct their anger. During the second world war, Asian Americans wore badges statingthey were not Japanese, in order to stave off attacks on...
Our panel on the Japanese WWII internment camps was *packed* and the kids really moved by the film and the speaker who was a niece to an interned woman. I can safely say if I’d just put that panel out as a meetup thing most of those kids would never have heard about it at all ...
the realization of"the age-long dream of Moscow to have direct access to the Indian Ocean". The United States then launched Operation Cyclone, which lasted from1979 to1989 and cost up to US$630 million each year. Together with Saudi Arabia and Britain, the United States provided funding, ...
Governor Tom McCall Waterfront Park (SW Naito Pkwy from S Hawthorne Bridge to Burnside Bridge) features a riverside walkway that takes pedestrians and bicyclists through the Japanese-American Historical Plaza, a park built in remembrance of citizens who were interned during World War II. It's espe...
Originally, databases were flat. This means that the information was stored in one long text file, called a tab delimited file. Each entry in the tab delimited file is separated by a special character, such as a vertical bar (|). Each entry contains multiple pieces of information (fields)...
He had a bunch of gavels made up with “duty to dissent” written in Japanese on them. If there wasn’t a robust enough argument in a meeting, he’d slide the gavel across the table to someone, as a sign to take up the opposite point of view. This simple prop was surprisingly effe...
As well as the Neuve Invention, the collection has also continued to search for new creators. Its second director Lucienne Peiry sought out artists from all over the world and oversaw the first exhibition of Japanese Art Brut in 2008–09. But beyond this the international hunt has produced ...