And when, throughout the first few months of the war, politicians—most persistently, Secretary of the Navy Knox—called for mass evacuation in Hawaii, 23 the nation's highest military commanders successfully resisted the pressure, not because of any concern for the civil rights of the Hawaiian...
Edo Japan’s central government (Bakufu) was more likely to enforce legal rights than Qing China’s central government (Imperial Court). Japan’s institutional configuration facilitated the growth of rice markets such as the Doujima market in Osaka, because participants did not need to invest as...
32–34.). Extensive grasslands were, however, maintained to raise horses for military use. Though probably rare in most of Japan until the nineteenth century, goats were known in Nagasaki and Okinawa from the medieval period (Thiede, 1998; Kreiner, 1996: .p. 21). That the Japanese raised...
A full-scale invasion of Japan would’ve resulted in the loss of 10’s of millions of additional people (military and civilian), the inevitable destruction of Japanese monuments, and quite possibly the end of the Japanese civilization as we know it...
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Yellow fever virus (discussed in detail in this chapter) was the first arbovirus identified in the 1800s as responsible for large epidemics of hemorrhagic fever in Africa and North, Central, and South America. By 1960 scientists recognized serologically two distinct arboviruses: the group A arbovir...