Christmas in Japan is a mirror image of the Christmas known in the English-speaking world. Things look very similar, but everything is back-to-front. The most fundamental difference is that Christmas is about couples in Japan, and about families in the West. Then, while the West is busy partying it up on New Year’s Eve, Japan …
Japan and Italy were similar in the 1930s in that they had nominally democratic governments but were, in fact, lead by regimes that were indelibly influenced by fascism. “Japanese politics and ideology in the first half of the twentieth century were enmeshed in a dialogue with European fascism”. Hofmann argues, “Japanese politics and ideology in …
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Background to the Dispute between Japan and the USA over immigration In 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt resolved an immigration dispute between the United States and Japan by negotiating the term “Gentlemen’s Agreement”. The agreement was a diplomatic solution to an immigration disagreement that had been ongoing for many years between the two countries. The policy …
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