Its genius is structural: it opens with a ronin requesting permission to commit seppuku – ritual suicide – on the estate of a powerful clan, before flashing back to the agonising, humiliating fate of another ronin who made the same request. Are the two connected? And will there be hell ...
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Had they waited, the Japanese might have surrendered before Groves got to drop the implosion bomb on the planned target of Kokura; it was only because of overcast skies there that bomber Bockscar actually dropped its atomic bomb on Nagasaki instead. ...
"Aug. 15, 1945 will always be remembered by me as the day when victory finally arrived after so many terrible years of devastating conflict... It also proved that when two great powers such as China and the United States agree on a goal and work together to accomplish it, they will alw...
Technical ability doesn't equate to a bomb, but experts suggest getting from raw plutonium to a nuclear weapon could take as little as six months after the political decision to go forward. A senior U.S. official familiar with Japanese nuclear strategy said the six-month figure for a country...
I am reminded of John Belushi in the movie “1941” ? lol. Where people in LA supposedly really thought the Japanese could bomb America-proper. Loved the movie. But I still think it would’ve been smarted to admit we knew these were coming and what to do if we saw any. ...
Hundreds of thousands of Koreans were forced, or deceived, into forced labor and sexual slavery before and during WWII. The Korean Peninsula was colonized by the Imperial Japan from 1910 to 1945. Some of the surviving forced labor victims and the bereaved families have filed a total of 14 ca...
Since the fallout reference material and the soils samples we investigated in this study were sampled in the period after large scale atmospheric nuclear weapons tests and before the widespread operation of nuclear power plants in Japan, we consider that they have the same source of Pu isotopes, ...
Despite thousands of years of cultural exchange, shared economic and political concerns today, and even plans to jointly host the next World Cup soccer finals, relations between Korea and Japan are chilly, largely because of Japan's 35-year rule of Korea before World War II. … 展开 ...
Before retirement, Whitaker spent 28 years at Kent School in Connecticut as Director of Public Relations, Alumni Secretary and Assistant Secretary to the Board of Trustees. He now volunteers on the carrier USS Yorktown in South Carolina and speaks at schools and retirement homes. ...