The islands off the west coast of Africa that constitute Cabo Verde were uninhabited until they were colonized by Portugal in the mid-15th century. After centuries under Portuguese rule, Cabo Verde won its independence in 1975, and Praia, on the island of Santiago, became the country’s ...
Japan effectively colonized the Korean Peninsula between 1910 and 1945, in a regime that imposed Japanese names and language on Koreans andconscripted many into forced labor or forced prostitutionin military brothels before and during World War II. Japan gave $800 million to South Korea’s...
mentions thehistory of South Africabeing colonized by Europeans. The Europeans and South Africans were not treated equally, and there was the notion thatlight skinwas somehow better, not much unlike Hitler’s idea that Jews were inferior. More recently, apartheid, the government policy of racial...
Long-simmering tensions with the U.S. over expansion in Asia came to a head on December 7, 1941.
By June 1942, Japanese conquests had already colonized much of Southeast Asia as well as the western Pacific. Under the colonization of the Japanese, prisoners of war and enslaved civilians were subjected to forced labor for their captors in harsh and often inhumane conditions. A series of lan...
Historians say as many as 400,000 women from Asian countries, including from the Korean Peninsula, were forced into sex slavery for Japanese military brothels during WWII. The Korean Peninsula was colonized by the Imperial Japan from 1910 to 1945. ...
Slavery is over. Colonialism is over. But there are still or more discrimination against black people. I think that the situation is very similar to theJapanese people’s attitudes toward Korean orChinese people. Those people were colonized by Japanese government in the past, and although that ...
and as long as it remains more profitable to dump waste in neighborhoods with minority groups, or shipping off tons of waste tothe Philippinesor Bangladesh, environmental inequality will persist, without taking into account the health of other human beings that do not belong in our local environme...
Jouhki says that the Korean image of Japan is as she was in the colonial period, and Yasukuni represents imperial Japan just as if it were now. The image exaggerates the difference between us and them, Korea and Japan. He says that when the Koreans were colonized, it made the Koreans...
(C:155, but not this particular subspecies) (F:46) (FGBJ:68) (JBM:5) (KJB:29) (S:54) Adult flies May-October, modtly August BLUE TRIANGLE (or the Common Bluebottle) (Range: India to china and Japan, south to the Malay peninsula, the Philippines, and as far as New South Wales...