What political events happend in Japan in 1940's? Government wise?
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Why are so many stupid Americans trying to somehow bring themselves into a question that is clearly about the "structural" governments of China and Japan???\n\nBoth Japan and China were initially very similar in that they were under imperial rule although Japan did have more of a functional parliament and was definitely more advanced, progressive and shall we say, ah, "expansive". The chinese emperor feared he would not be able to challenge Japan's military superiority and thus sought to appease/ally with them but the Japs had other ideas and invaded them and pretty much ruled the place. This is where the Chinese lost all faith in their emperor. As soon as China was liberated from Japanese occupation they decided that people power was the only way, deposed the emperor and the communist party took over. After WW2 Japan's emperor was relegated to the role of mere figurehead and full political power given to a democratic parliament.
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There is no doubt that the interment of Japanese during World War II is not a stellar event in the rights of individuals.  It should be kept in mind that such government instigated intrusive acts had happened here many times in prior years.  \n\nIt should also be understood that this happened over a period of time (mostly during War Time) and was not supported by all Americans.  A short summary of events, as they occurred, might help to understand how this all came about.\n\n1939\nLists of "dangerous" enemy aliens and citizens began to be compiled in various government departments, such as the FBI, special intelligence agencies of the Justice Department, the Office of Naval Intelligence, and the army's Military Intelligence Division.8 \n1940\nThe census found 126,947 Japanese Americans; 62.7% were citizens by birth. In addition, 157,905 were in the Territory of Hawaii, and 263 in the Territory of Alaska.2 \nSummer, 1941\nThe Hawaiian National Guard (made up largely of Nisei) was federalized and later became the 100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team.1 \nNovember 1, 1941\nThe Japanese Language School at the Presidio of San Francisco was formed. In the first class were 45 Nisei and Kibei and 15 others. It was moved to Camp Savage, Minnesota, renamed the Military Intelligence Service Language School (MISLS) and later moved to Fort Snelling, Minnesota.1 \nNovember 7, 1941\nCurtis Munson issued his report on the Japanese Americans living on the coast.12 \nNovember 26, 1941\nGrace Tully (Roosevelt's secretary) told Henry Field (anthropologist and aide to Roosevelt) that the President was ordering him to produce, in the shortest time possible, the full names and addresses of each American-born and foreign-born Japanese listed by locality within each state. She told him to use the 1930 and 1940 census.13 \nDecember 7, 1941\nJapan bombed Pearl Harbor.\nA blanket presidential warrant authorized U.S. Attorney General Francis Biddle to have the FBI arrest a predetermined number of "dangerous enemy aliens," including German, Italian, and Japanese nationals. 737 Japanese Americans arrested by the end of the day.2 \n\nDecember 8, 1941\nU.S. entered World War II. \nDecember 11, 1941\nFBI detained 1370 Japanese Americans classified as "dangerous enemy aliens."2 \nDecember 22, 1941\nThe Agriculture Committee of the L.A. Chamber of Commerce recommended that all Japanese nationals be put under "absolute Federal control."2 \nDecember 29, 1941\nAll enemy aliens in California, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho, Utah, and Nevada were ordered to surrender contraband.2 \nJanuary 5, 1942\nJapanese American selective service registrants classified as enemy aliens (IV-C). Many Japanese American soldiers discharged or assigned to menial labor such as "kitchen police."2 \nJanuary 6, 1942\n"I do not believe that we could be any too strict in our consideration of the Japanese in the face of the treacherous way in which they do things," wrote Leland Ford, L.A. Congressman, in a telegram to Secretary of State Cordell Hull, asking that all Japanese Americans be removed from the West Coast.2 \nJanuary 28, 1942\nThe California State Personnel Board voted to bar all "descendants of natives with whom the United States [is] at war" from all civil service positions. This was only enforced against Japanese Americans.2\nJanuary 29, 1942\nAttorney General Francis Biddle began the establishment of prohibited zones forbidden to all enemy aliens. German, Italian, and Japanese aliens were ordered to leave San Francisco waterfront areas.2 \nJanuary 30, 1942\n"Unless something is done it may bring about a repetition of Pearl Harbor," said Earl Warren, California Attorney General, calling Japanese Californians the "Achilles heel of the entire civilian defense effort."2 \nFebruary 4, 1942\nThe U.S. Army established 12 "restricted areas" in which enemy a
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Shoguns were basically warlords who ruled over fedual Japan between about 1200 and 1868. \n\nIn Japanese history, a shogun (将軍 shōgun) was the practical ruler of Japan for most of the time from 1192 to the Meiji Era beginning in 1868. A Shogun's administration is a shogunate, or bakufu (幕府), literally "tent government", in Japanese.\n\nThe term shōgun means "General" whereas the full title Seii Taishōgun (征夷大将軍) means "generalissimo who overcomes the barbarians", ie. the aboriginal Ainu people who once inhabited Honshu and Hokkaido. Used in common reference to the historical full title, the term shōgun is still used to refer to the rank of general.\n\nAt the launch of the Kamakura shogunate, the shogun seized power from the Imperial Court in Kyoto, becoming the practical ruler of Japan until the Meiji Restoration.\n\nhttp://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/TOKJAPAN/SHOGUN.HTM\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogunate
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what government , what country, what century, what decade, what form of government. \nwhy ask vague questions?
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Japan's head of government is actually not a King but a Prime Minister, who is currently Junichiro Koizumi.  Japan also has an emperor, who acts more or less like a diplomat, and mostly serves in ceremonal events.  \n\nThe Netherlands head of government is also a prime minister by the name of Jan Peter Balkenende.  If monarchy is what interests you, the Netherlands doesn't have a king, but a queen; Queen Beatrix.\n\nAs for your last question, I don't know...
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1937 is the year to remember because this is when China and Japan go to war. Prince Konyoye, Japan's Foreign Minister and Hidikei Tojo, Japan's military dictator want a Pacific Rim Empire. They believed Japanese people were ethnically superior to the people in the surrounding countries. As Japan grew industrially it needed raw materials and therefore, it had to invade territories to get them like the Dutch East Indies and China. \n\nThe U.S. placed an embargo on Japan after the China invasion. The one good of importance was oil. Since the U.S. could control oil imports to Japan and the US was cutting Japan off Japan felt threatened by the US fleet at Pearl harbor. Around this time Konyoye flew to Berlin to sign the axis pact with Italy and Germany. \n\nDuring this time Admiral Yammato was testing new torpedoes and bombing techniques to prepare his strategy for attacking Pearl Harbor. At the same time Japan decided to negotiate with the US, but it was a stall for time. On Dec 6,1941 the war department intercepted a message to the Japanese embassy in Washington, which contained everything but a declaration of war. The Japanese government wanted the US to know of an upcoming attack, but waited until the seventh to deliver the ultimatum. However the embassy in Washington delivered the declaration of war after Pearl had been attacked. Yammato was shocked and uttered "I'm afraid we've woken a sleeping giant."
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If I were you, I'd go to google.com and type in TV series+Japan.\nYou just might find a link that'll remind you of enough to recall \nthe name of the series if you saw it. \n(If you know the approximate year the series was created, that\nwould be at least a start. E.g. : TV series+Japan+1999.)\n\nGood luck & happy googling.
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Junichiro Koizumi is the current Prime Minister of Japan.\n\nNote: Like the Queen of England, the Emperor of Japan is not the head of the Japanese Government but merely a figurehead.
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After a quick search, this seemed the most likely web-site.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Japanese_relations\n\nI'm sure you know about the situation between Japan & China in the early part of the 20th century, until WWII ended, or if you don't you can look it up fairly easily. The link is about post-war relations.
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This may not be a topic you are interested in, but I found this article.  President Discusses Unity Between the U.S. & Japan.\nJust an idea.\nhttp://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/02/20020218-2.html
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The moment their Emperor told 'em to.  Incredible discipline!  Mid-August, 1945.\n\n~EDIT~\nYou wanted the exact date, hm?  I think it was Aug. 14.  Why don't you just look it up?
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Japan became increasingly militaristic in the 1930's and wanted an empire free from western colonialists known as the "asian co-propersity sphere". China overthrew the last dynasty and was then embroiled in a civil war between the Chinese nationalists led bt Mao Zedong who were more right wing and the Chinese communists led by Chiang Kai Shek.\n\nIn 1931 under false pretexts the Japanese bombed the Manchurian railway lines and accused the chinese of doing it (much like Hitler and the Nazi's setting the reichstag on fire and blaming it on the Communists.), this gave them the excuse to invade Manchuria(North west China)under the pretext of "protecting Japanese property".\n\nJapan subsequently invaded and Blitzed Manchuria without warning. They would setup a pupper goverment and the former Chinese emperor puyi who was overthrown by the nationalist revolution would become its "head of state" and it was renamed to Manchukuo which was in theory independant but in reality under the control of the Japanese.\n\nThis shocked the nationalists as they were fighting a war with the communists and didn't expect this so Chiang Kai Shek tried to negotiate a peace treaty which was extremely unpopular and he would be heavily critisized for selling out under Japanese pressure. Several conflicts would arise between 1931 and 1937 but there was not yet an all out war just a bunch of skirmishes.\n\nPeople were very aware of the threat and that the civil war could threaten China's response to Japanese invasion of greater China. The civil war would brew on that was until 1936.\n\nBy 1936 Chiang Kai Shek's own generals grew discontent and in a plot that would shock China and the world he would be kidnapped by his own generals and be forced to cease the civil war in favour of a united front between nationalists and communists, At first he stubbornly refused but then later would agree. After he had agree he was set free and would adhere to a ceasefire.\n\nBy 1937 the Japanese grew increasingly aware that their plans for expansionism were in jeopordy if they didn't take action so near the Marco polo bridge they started an incident which would cause the Sino-Japanese war and later merged into world war 2.\n\nRead the sources.
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Italy was the first anti-democratic government in europe.\n\nmussolini established the fascist party in the 1920s and took control of the italian government.  he called himself il duce (the leader) and ruled as a tyrant until he was killed by the italian people and hanged upside down from a meathook during world war 2.\n\nhitler established an anti-democratic government in germany in 1933.  he emulated mussolini and they fought together in world war 2.\n\nemperor hirohito established an anti-democratic government in japan in the 1930s.  he attacked manchuria, korea and china to begin world war two in the pacific.\n\nif you need more info e-mail me.  dan
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ok, let me say that 10 year olds should not be allowed to ask questions. \n\nbut here goes.\nIf you knew your history the leaders of japan cared nothing for their people.  when we dropped the first bomb, they did not care.  after the second bomb they did not care.  they DID NOT care about their people.  they believed they were gods.  and their people should die for them.  just look at the Kamikaze.  \n\nsecond.\nthe bombs did not end the war.  it was after the second bomb the russa signed their declaration of war.  (they signed it because they knew we would win.  before that they were too scared to sign one.)\n\nJapan knew they could not win a 2 front war.  they were worried that both would invade and kill Hirohito.  he  did not care how many bombs were dropped on their people.\n\nOK, last\ndid you know that japan dropped anthrax on china durring ww2.  no you did not, did you.\n\nUnit 731 was a secret military medical unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that researched biological warfare and other topics through human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and World War II era. For information on its origin see Kempeitai Political Department and Epidemic Prevention Research Laboratory.\n\nThe unit was disguised as a water purification unit. It was based in Pingfang, near the city of Harbin in northeastern China, the region which was then part of the puppet state of Manchukuo. Various Eastern and Western sources estimate anywhere from 3,000 to 200,000 Chinese, Korean, Mongolians, Allied civilians and POWs (especially Russian POWs) were directly or indirectly killed by Unit 731's experiments.\n\n\nso before you go and point your finger at the USA why dont you get your facts straight.\nDAMN I HATE THESE 10 YEAR olds who are stuped.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991#Events
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try this http://www.japantimes.co.jp/
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germany,Japan,Italy (Axis powers)