The Similarities Between Japan And Germany

“Culture encompasses the behavior patterns, beliefs, and all other products of a particular group of people that are passed on from generation to generation” (Santrock).

Consistent with Japanese propaganda the nationalist leaders held belief that Japan was “the leader, protector and light of Asia”. However, this perception of liberation from colonial rule was a façade as the civilians of occupied nations experienced harsher treatment under the Japanese than they did under the colonial authorities.

The autobiography illustrates personal experiences of discrimination and prejudice while also reporting the political occurrences during the United States’ involvement in World War II. After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the United States government unleashed unrestrained contempt for the Japanese residing in the nation. The general public followed this train of thought, distrusting the Japanese and treating them like something less than human. In a country of freedom and justice, no coalition stepped up to defend the people who had lived there most of or all of their lives; rather, people took advantage of the Japanese evacuation to take their property and belongings. The government released demeaning propaganda displaying comical Japanese men as monsters and rats, encouraging the public to be vigilant and wary toward anyone of Japanese descent. The abuse of the Japanese during this period was taken a little too lightly, the government apologizing too late and now minor education of the real cruelty expressed toward the nation’s own citizens. Now we see history repeating itself in society, and if we don’t catch the warning signs today, history may just come full

Each strove to maintain a centralized government. For Japan the leader was to be called an emperor or empress who could only be a part of the royal family if they were related to the Shinto sun goddess. As for Europe, the leader was to be called a king or a queen. Like Japan, not just anybody could become royalty. Kings and queens came from a long descent of an Imperial family. Tradition was that the first born son of the king would become the next ruler following the kings death. However, if no legitimate son were born then the daughter would become queen. In Europe, the royal family and institution was usually

The Japanese empire was in great power by this time period, and they thought themselves as the king of the East Asian race. Japan, the “old order”, also believed that some day Europe and America would take over their power and become the “new orders”(Doc A). Japan was one

The retaliation of the Japanese had the world concerned by the oppression of military actions and to reveal power during the modern era (1900’s). The strategy of the Japanese

Racism was manifested in many ways during World War Two. The Germans believed that the Aryan race was superior to all other races and began to seek and destroy the race that they believed to be the least. The Japanese, while calling for the unification of Asia, believed that the Japanese Yamato race was the most superior race and in many cases treated their Asian neighbors with the same hatred and malevolence that the German Nazi’s had for the Jews and other undesirables like gypsies. The author goes on and explains the difference between racism and the Japanese and American folk histories that guided them. While the definition of racism is the belief that another race is inferior the ideas of the American and Japanese folk tales tend

"In the United States and Britain," Dower reminds us, "the Japanese were more hated than the Germans before as well as after Pearl Harbor. On this, there was no dispute among contemporary observers. They were perceived as a race apart, even a species apart -- and an overpoweringly monolithic one at that. There was no Japanese counterpart to the 'good German' in the popular consciousness of the Western Allies." (8) But there are two answers in the book that gives us a reason on why there was more hatred towards the Japanese than the Germans. These are the same Germans that engaged in a systematic genocide against millions of Jews. But why the Japanese were more hated than the Germans despite the latter’s orgy of violence, is surely in large part racial. It’s not a

At the beginning of World War II there were nine million Jews, at the end there were three million. In the Jewish concentration camp’s, there were about six million Jews killed under Adolf Hitler’s commands. In the Japanese internment camp’s, there were about 127,000 people imprisoned. There was a total of 11,127,000 people imprisoned in the internment and the concentration camps combined. The Japanese camp’s and the Jewish concentration camp’s situation were the same because both cultures were excluded from their communities, both were forced to live in undesirable places, and they were both treated cruelly and unfairly.

Japanese Canadians during World War 2 were deeply affected, all over the world but, received the harshest punishment in Canada. With families, having to leave their homes, and all their land and get shipped to interment camps, where they were treated poorly and not seen as individuals but seen as japanese, by the colour of their skin. I believe that many ethnic groups all over the world have received a form of discrimination or mistreatment that has abolished some of their heritage and identity. Apologies have been given out but, have have not been giving for the right reasons instead given for the sake of saying we have apologized. The author develops the idea that when a social group or ethnic group have experienced hardships and social scrutiny, this effect them deeply leading, to future hatred and searching for answers.

The author used a very unique and disturbing attitude to look at the uses of racist ideology by both the Western Powers and Japan to fuel their pursuit of military, political and cultural dominance during the early 20th century which leading up through the brutal "War without Mercy" known as the Pacific War. In this book, John Dower argued that race not only colored America’s actions in the Pacific theater of World War II, but the Japanese harbored a similar preoccupation with their own racial superiority that motivated them to engage in martial and power pursuits. This sense of superiority fueled emotions which would bring both countries to act inhumanely to one another during the war.

How the United States and Japan integrated “previously despised populations into their nations in unprecedented ways, while at the same time denouncing racial discrimination and even considering these peoples as part of the national populations and, as such, deserving of life, welfare, and happiness” (Fujitani

Both Japan and China lie in the East of Asia. ‪To a certain extent，Japan and China own similar culture background, in the Confucian Cultural Circle. But when we look back into the modern history development, Japan and China made quite different decisions when facing the western countries’ aggression. China suffered the invasion in 1840 after the first Sino-British War. Japan was in a similar situation in the black boat incident in 1853, the Opium War made the West began to pay attention to East Asia. From then on, Japan began to face the western culture. ‬The reactions, as well as the result of Japan and China were quite disparate. This article wants to discuss what lead to the difference. ‬‬

The purpose of this investigation is to find out to what extend did Nazi Germany influenced Japan 's change in policy to relocate Jewish refugees to the "Hongkew Ghetto"; a gated community in Shanghai, China. The main body of evidence will focus on the relationship between Japan and Germany in 1943, the general environment of the ghetto, and the Japanese views on the Jewish community before their partnership with the Nazis. Evidence will include journal dairies of first account witnesses, historical books pertaining to the Japanese view of the Jews, and a scholarly article analyzing the relationship between Japan and Germany in the 1940s. Sources will be examined in regard to their origin, purpose, value, and limitation in order to provide a accurate evaluation of the evidence. However, this investigation will not curtail to the details of Japanese Wars and colonialism in the WWII era. The analysis of these sources as well as the summary of evidence found will be used to generate a conclusion pertaining to whether or not Nazi Germany had a dramatic influence in Japan’s change of policy towards the Jewish refugees or was the policy created solely from Japan’s intention.

The culture of a place is an integral part of its society whether that place is a remote Indian village in Brazil or a highly industrialized city in Western Europe. The culture of Japan fascinates people in the United States because, at first glance, it seems so different. Everything that characterizes the United States--newness, racial heterogeneity, vast territory, informality, and an ethic of individualism-- is absent in Japan. There, one finds an ancient and homogeneous society, an ethic that emphasizes the importance of groups, and a tradition of formal behavior governing every aspect of daily living, from drinking tea to saying hello. On the surface at least, U.S. and Japanese