In 1936 Japan joined Germany in theAnti-Comintern Pact, and the government began to press all religious bodies to cooperate with the national aim to extend the imperial rule abroad. The Roman Catholic Church, which previously had taken the position that obeisance at Shintō shrines was a religio...
In 1936 Japan joined Germany in the Anti-Comintern Pact, and the government began to press all religious bodies to cooperate with the national aim to extend the imperial rule abroad. The Roman Catholic Church, which previously had taken the position that obeisance at Shintō shrines was a relig...
Note: This took place before South Korea scraped the pact aka GSOMIA. She was spot on about Moon Jae-in. Kono Taro: If Korea wants to rewrite history, they need to know that can’t be done. Kono Taro – Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan ...
Such a pact would have had the additional advantage that Great Britain would have found a European ally that could put pressure on the Russian western frontier; thus pinning down troops there that otherwise could be deployed for a further Russian military advance in northern China and along the ...
and in 1931 the wordbudobegan to refer to compulsory ideological instruction in the Japanese public schools. For more on this topic, see Tamio Nakamura,Kendo jiten: gijutsu to bunka no rekishi(Kendo Gazeteer: A Technical and Cultural History) (Tokyo: Shimatsu Shobo, 1994); my thanks to Profe...
The implied pact the musicalAllegiancemakes with its audience is that you will see an honest retelling of the Japanese American incarceration, and come away feeling comfortably uplifted. The show does entertain, through derivative songs and animated production. It achieves its effect, however, bysacr...
Only people without any sense of shame dare suggest anything so shameful. What right have these die-hards to breathe a word against us? No, Comrades! What needs to be done is not to abolish the Border Region but to get the whole country to follow its example, not to disband the Eighth...
The word kameya, referring to the Western breeds of dogs the traders occasionally brought with them, is derived from the owners calling come here to their dogs, which was misinterpreted by the observing Japanese as the word for the animal itself. Yokohama dialect usage was mostly restricted to...
On 27 November 1941 he sailed on the American ship S.S. Calvin Coolidge, headed for Honolulu. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, and there is no word from the Coolidge running under radio silence. There are several Japanese radio reports that the Coolidge has been sunk....
Meyer had to take a class to learn how to braid and care for her daughter's hair properly, and Glotzer sits on the board of PACT, the nonprofit agency based in San Francisco that helped arrange their kids' adoptions. Glotzer and Meyer also decided to live only in racially integrated ...