| 单词 | Japan |
| 例句 | All of Korea had been ruled by Imperial Japan since 1910. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Clippers and schooners brought them back from Jakarta, Peking, and Japan. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Many people worry surrender to America would mean Japan lose kokutai.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z After spending three months in Japan, he was about to embark for the Philippines. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I have a homework desk with a gooseneck lamp; a collection of cute, pastel-colored pens from Japan; and a tiny potted cactus. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z That persistence of Chinese writing in Japan and Korea is a vivid 20th-century legacy of plant and animal domestication in China nearly 10,000 years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That was the last anyone in Japan saw or heard of him. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Only a few hours after the outbreak of hostilities between Japan and the United States, San Piedro Island late last night was prepared—temporarily at least—for an air raid bombing or other serious emergency. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “He’s the best sexer in Georgia. He won the national competition in Japan before he moved to the States. He can sex twelve hundred chicks an hour with one hundred percent accuracy.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z A wasp imported from Japan established complete control of an insect attacking eastern apple orchards. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As he walked the streets of Japan’s capital, Mishima could feel the agonizing suspense in the air; he could see it in passing faces. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a routine that worked well until February 1939, when Japan introduced the Type B cipher machine. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z These stations, with funding from South Korea, the United States, and Japan, mix Asian and world news with sharply critical coverage of North Korea and the Kim dynasty. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Today, nearly 40 years after those early dates for pottery in Japan were measured, archaeologists are still reeling from the carbon 14 shock, as it is termed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For their preliminary, the boys from Washington were assigned to race against France, Japan, Czechoslovakia, and the crew they were most concerned about, Great Britain. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z That the British are putting up a fight with the help of the Americans, even though the Americans are also fighting Japan. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z She would make her circus get famous and get jobs in Europe, and maybe even China or Japan. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Her grandparents had returned to Japan when Papa was nine, more than twenty-five years ago. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Japan presented an entirely different case, at least to the scientists. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I was wondering, when do you think we could start a restaurant in Japan?” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The pillows were stuffed with buckwheat—that’s what they used in Japan, not feathers like in America—and they made a soft noise when they were moved. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He had survived pellagra in Persia, scurvy in the Malayan archipelago, leprosy in Alexandria, beriberi in Japan, bubonic plague in Madagascar, an earthquake in Sicily, and a disastrous shipwreck in the Strait of Magellan. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In Japan, before the turn of the century, outside my father’s house there stood one of those stone lanterns, with four stubby legs and a small pagoda-like roof. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet these emotions, the Review must stress, should not include a blind, hysterical hatred of all persons who trace their ancestry to Japan. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z And it’s not just stuff from China—there’s stuff from South Korea and Thailand and Japan too. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z If he buys the fish he’ll pack it in ice and send it overnight by air to Japan, for auction at the Tokyo fish market tomorrow. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Similarly, Japan continues to use its horrendously cumbersome kanji writing system in preference to efficient alphabets or Japan’s own efficient kana syllabary—because the prestige attached to kanji is so great. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It also took several centuries for Yayoi Japan to exhibit the first signs of social stratification, as reflected especially in cemeteries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Dozens and dozens of planes used Sulphur Island as an emergency landing field on their way back from bombing Japan. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Furthermore, in contrast to the winter rains prevailing over much of Europe, Japan’s rains are concentrated in the summer growing season. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There were pages and pages of gloom about the immediate likelihood of war between Japan and China, and the growing likelihood of war in Europe. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The panel, to its own dismay, could conceive of no alternative to bombing Japan. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I guarantee at least Japan and New Zealand have a few leaving in the next few days. The question is whether or not they have a secret viable settlement too.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The world’s nations rushed to choose sides, and within a day, eighteen other countries, including the United Kingdom, also declared war on Japan. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z In reality there would have been, as always, too few, except that the last act, a mass assault against suicidally-defended Japan, never took place. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The material introduces Japan to children, and provide a lesson rich in culture, literacy, and music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The new line of frindles imported from Japan were a big hit, and now there was talk of selling them in Japan and Europe, as well. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z During his incarceration in Japan, the only respites Bobby had from boredom and emotional turmoil were the visits from his lawyers and Miyoko, and his use of the telephone. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z While we were there, America destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic bombs, and the war with Japan came to an end. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Watching the first sunrise is the traditional way to celebrate New Year’s in Japan. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z And American forces were locked in ferocious battles with Japan all over the Pacific. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z We have abundant evidence from the garbage that they left behind at hundreds of thousands of excavated archaeological sites and huge shell mounds distributed all over Japan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If Truman began negotiating with Japan now, it could be seen as a sign of weakness. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I was court-martialed again in Kyoto, Japan, for stealing a Japanese taxicab. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z It was true that Purple had warned that Japan might attack the United States. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z While the Irukandji lives in large numbers off the coast of Australia, Irukandji-like symptoms have been experienced as far north as the British Isles, and in Hawaii, Florida, and Japan. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z During the next few years its success in Italy was matched by the successful control of lice affecting some two million people in Japan and Korea in the winter of 1945-46. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z After Trinity, the drive toward the bombing of Japan proceeded without further consultation with the scientific panel. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z What if he’s actually angry with me, and is waiting to dole out punishment once I’m in Japan? Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The antiaircraft fire was so tough over Japan that many were shot down or so damaged they couldn’t make it back to Guam. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Cool. We did Europe the year before last. We were in Japan this past summer.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Partly as a result, food prices in Japan are very high: the best beef costs $200 a pound, while chicken costs $25 a pound. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Pottery helped those Japanese hunter-gatherers to exploit their environment’s rich food resources more than 10,000 years before intensive agriculture reached Japan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He learned to roast turkeys and to drive a Pierce-Arrow sedan, and he perfected the English he had begun to learn before he left Japan. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Her mother predicted that the war with Japan would force all her daughters to decide who they were and then to become more Japanese. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z This is nothing, he thinks, reminding himself of the nuclear power plant that melted down in Fukushima, Japan, after an earthquake, and the tsunami that followed. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He liked to hear of how Japan was conquering China; of how Hitler was running the Jews to the ground; of how Mussolini was invading Spain. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z August 14, 1945: Japan surrendered, ending World War II. I didn’t get to the third one because at that moment I heard a rifle shot, followed by my mother hollering, “Jack!Jack!” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Japan’s Big Six leaders gathered in Tokyo for an emergency meeting. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I correctly answered that Tokyo was the capital of Japan, Addis Ababa the capital of Ethiopia, Ottawa the capital of Canada, and Bogota the capital of Colombia. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Perhaps as a result, Britain throughout its history has been much more closely enmeshed with mainland Europe than has Japan with mainland Asia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They were to be the next stepping stones toward our final destination, Japan itself. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z On March 14 Burnham joined Davis for dinner with Japan’s delegate to the fair, at the Chicago Club. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z My heels scraped across the floor in short stints, hobbled by links of chain, as it is said that the young gentle-ladies of Japan walk, hobbled by subservience and feminine humility. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She and her late husband had once been friends with many Japanese officials, but that was before Japan and the United States had gone to war. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Its safety in isolation came to an end in 1853, when the visit of Commodore Perry’s U.S. fleet bristling with cannons convinced Japan of its need to resume gun manufacture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Really? How is that possible? Japan is so far away.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “Why can’t we work hard in Japan and start a restaurant?” she pressed him. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z These puzzles remind one of equally puzzling non-inventions, or else disappearances of inventions, in small isolated societies, including Aboriginal Tasmania, Aboriginal Australia, Japan, Polynesian islands, and the American Arctic. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Let there be no mistake; we shall completely destroy Japan’s power to make war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1886 Japan had for the first time allowed its citizens to emigrate, and thousands from his district had already left the country in search of better opportunities. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Then as now, Japan’s inhabitants were also among the world’s leading consumers of seafood. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Then, in December 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, and it was like Turner Station had won the lottery: the demand for steel skyrocketed, as did the need for workers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z On that day, US reconnaissance aircraft flying from bases in Japan and outfitted with special detection equipment picked up signs of nuclear debris in the atmosphere. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She had lived all her life in America, and then she had spent the last two weeks in a dizzying half-world between America and Japan. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z And so here she was, in Japan, where her father could not see a future, but where he thought they could survive. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Japan’s high rainfall also ensures that its forest regenerates quickly after logging. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Which of the three theories is correct for Japan? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Hence when Japan sent troops to Korea and annexed it in 1910, Japanese military leaders celebrated the annexation as “the restoration of the legitimate arrangement of antiquity.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She was dismayed over how un-Japanese we were and vowed to send us to Japan one day. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z She thought of the journey to Japan on the ship and how awful it would be making that same trip back, this time without her parents. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z They believed that holy wind would always defend Japan. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the reporters—he’d lived in Japan just after the war, training automotive engineers to write manuals—was reminded of the calm of a geisha he’d witnessed performing the tea ceremony at Nara. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Do you think aliens are a lot more advanced than humans, or do you think they’d look at us and think we were the Japan of the universe?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Our earliest written information about Japan comes from Chinese chronicles, because China developed literacy long before it spread from China to either Korea or Japan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It had been three weeks since the fall of Germany, and attention was focused on Japan. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The top brass also remembered all too well how Yardley’s boastful book had made Japan dump its old codes and ciphers, then create much harder ones. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Most popular in Japan is the view that the Japanese gradually evolved from ancient Ice Age people who occupied Japan long before 20,000 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Allied occupation consisted of Western soldiers, mostly Americans, who were stationed in Japan to restore order and tell the Japanese people how to make a new government. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Our smartest kids are average compared with Japan’s smartest kids.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z This time we were to invade the island of Okinawa, even closer to Japan. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Reinforcing that interpretation of a single invention of pottery in the south and a spread from that one source, the style of the earliest Jomon pottery is fairly uniform over the whole of Japan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Hanako wondered how it worked in Japan: Did you just keep working until you died? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The arrows converge from three directions on Japan, which is just a bunch of islands itself. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “One of our units has just been successfully dropped on Japan.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, with the completion of Japan’s first chronicle, in A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I eat these foods because they remind me of Japan. And my grandfather.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Once there, he boarded a ship full of Nazi-supporting passengers heading back to Germany by way of Japan. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “Ate this in Japan. Decades ago. An international meet. Our team hosts said we had to try.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He had attended military school in Japan until the age of seventeen, and part of him never got over that. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z About six percent of the country’s gross domestic product is spent on education, more than double the percentage of comparable spending in the United States, Japan, or Britain. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “I want future for you. I will cry, yes. But look at my back. If you stay, you may end up like me. In Japan it is not easy to change your fate.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The last time anyone had heard a word from him was when he was in Japan. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The fact that iron and intensive farming reached Japan simultaneously is unlikely to be a coincidence. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In fast motion, a ring of fire spreads out from the Pacific Ocean east toward the United States, and west toward Japan. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Hitler immediately turned around and made a treaty with Japan and Italy, creating his own group of allies known as the “Axis” powers. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z They rang for higher wages, they rang for better food, they rang for open revolt, for patriotism, for common sense, and for a wholesale return to Japan. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Korean families that have lived in Japan for several generations still find it difficult to acquire Japanese citizenship. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If I needed explanations at all, I conjured up vague notions about a war between America and Japan. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Many nations understand that the systematic murder of such intelligent creatures is monstrous, but the traffic continues, promoted chiefly by Japan, Norway and the Soviet Union. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the thing about Japan: the water was gray, not blue or pretty. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z After that, except for a single dot representing the Ainu in Japan, the Hair Belt ends. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z At camp Mama had told her what life would be like in Japan. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z As a next step, American troops were preparing for an all-out invasion of Japan. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She told her daughters, once again, the story of her odyssey from Japan on board the Korea Maru. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z This was Japan’s eighth largest city, and the location of an important army base. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Forbidden to make engines of war, Japan made automobiles instead, and won the world. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Indian medicine. People over in Japan and places like that think it cures everything.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She did not want to go to Japan! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I was safer in a B-29 bomber over Japan during the war in an air raid, than the people of Washington are walking to the White House neighborhood. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Even Korea and Japan were heavily influenced by China, although their geographic isolation from it ensured that they did not lose their languages or physical and genetic distinctness, as did tropical Southeast Asia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z So, lying in the barrack that night, she felt secure in the knowledge that Papa would know his way around Japan. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “We can trade butter and sugar for rice. Everyone in Japan, they think of rice day and night,” Jiichan was saying. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I had many violent outbursts of anger while I served time in Japan & Korea. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z We lock up six times as many citizens per capita as England, for example, and seventeen times as many as Japan. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Fear, certainly: she was just three years old when a B-29 Superfortress dropped an atomic bomb on Japan, forever linking the name Hiroshima with annihilation. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Korea was divided before the war. I’ve told you about when Korea was occupied by Japan and we almost lost our culture and our language.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Not surprisingly, loathing of the Japanese is widespread in Korea, and contempt for Koreans is widespread in Japan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Hence archaeology in Japan is supported by astronomically large budgets and draws public attention to a degree inconceivable anywhere else in the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Suffering from an attack of nausea, Elizebeth crept around the house alone—and then she heard the news that Japan was about to surrender. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Japan’s rising dominance and its sometimes touchy relations with its neighbors make it more important than ever to strip away persistent myths and to find answers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Well, we were at war with Japan, so...” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Purple was used by Japanese diplomats, which meant it carried the very highest-grade secrets.To protect those secrets, Japan's coding chiefs had outdone themselves. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Finally, on August 15, Emperor Hirohito spoke over the radio to the Japanese people, telling them that Japan was surrendering. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z She had brought along her pottery, her silver, heirlooms like the kimonos Granny had brought from Japan, tea sets, lacquered tables, and one fine old set of china, blue and white porcelain, almost translucent. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Milk production in Japan always starts at one minute past midnight, so that the milk that goes to market in the morning can be labeled as today’s milk. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Japan was a country of mountains, many of them volcanoes. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Instead, Japan became even more determined to conquer new territory, new sources of raw materials—even if this meant taking on the United States. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Jomon sites often contain remains of edible plants that are native to Japan as wild species but are also grown as crops today, including adzuki bean, mung bean, and barnyard millet. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He’s talked to people from as far away as Australia and Japan. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I doubt we’re the Japan. It’s impossible that another planet out there doesn’t have better robots than us already.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Thus, details of geography have made Japan more isolated and, therefore, even more distinctive culturally than Britain. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And without missing a beat she answered, “Japan.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Most of them had gone to school in Chicago or Japan to get this job. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “We were determined to find, if we could, some effective way of demonstrating the power of an atomic bomb without loss of life that would impress Japans warlords. If only this could be done!” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I met the king of Saudi Arabia, the president of Argentina, the prime ministers of Japan and Ethiopia. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I had a small collection, actually, that I’d gotten from an old friend from four moves ago; she’d brought them back for me from Japan and I was mildly obsessed. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Maybe that was one of the special, holy mountains of Japan. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z While Hitler’s forces overran Europe, Japan was on the attack in China and Southeast Asia. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z We were told it was then shipped to Japan, where it was used as a fertilizer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My fingers trace the maps while I read the names of faraway places: New Zealand, Greece, France, Italy, Japan, Korea. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z In addition, within recent years, molecular geneticists have begun to extract DNA from ancient human skeletons and to compare the genes of Japan’s ancient and modern populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At first, Japan might seem to be geographically very similar to Britain, both being large archipelagoes flanking the Eurasian continent on the east and the west respectively. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He pointed at a sword on the wall and said, “I got that in Japan!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, she returned several times to Europe, toured South America and the West Indies, and was one of the first Western artists to appear in Japan after the war. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z But archaeologists studying Jomon Japan have found little evidence of direct imports from China, in contrast to China’s big influence on subsequent Japanese history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Almost everyone at Manzanar had inherited this pair of traits from the generations before them who had learned to live in a small, crowded country like Japan. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z As we shall see, that high productivity of the land, fresh water, and seas was a key to Japan’s prehistory. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This left Japan—a nation with few natural resources—with barely enough fuel to survive another year. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Two Navajo code talkers, Paul Blatchford and Rex Malone, were reassigned to Army and Navy Intelligence and shipped out with special teams to Japan to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki ahead of our troops. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Is this the same part of Japan you were born in?” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He put together a huge fleet and sent it off to Japan. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He burned a lot of papers too, documents, anything that might suggest he still had some connection with Japan. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama’s father came from a family of stonecutters around Niigata, on the inner coast of northern Japan. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The suicide rate in 2008 was two and half times higher than in the United States and significantly higher than in nearby Japan, where suicide is deeply embedded in the culture. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He was somewhat skeptical, however, and wrote apprehensively to his friend Miyoko Watai in Japan: “I think the Hungarians may arrest me as soon as I cross the border. ” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The story was that when he was a boy in Japan, he was attacked by giant crows, one of which tried to steal his nose. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Those people lived on a group of faraway islands that they called Nippon, but we Americans knew it as Japan. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z His three daughters were among the first women in Japan to receive university degrees. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “You will find your place,” Jiichan said urgently, like it was extremely important for her to leave Japan. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Vietnam, not far from Japan, was seen as an important line in the sand for holding back Communism. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Palsson had traveled to Japan, and he continued to help when Bobby became an Icelandic citizen. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It was clear that Japan was going to be defeated. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The new lifestyle appeared first on the north coast of Japan’s southwesternmost island of Kyushu, immediately across Tsushima Strait from South Korea. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Around 13,000 years ago, as glaciers melted rapidly all over the world, conditions in Japan changed spectacularly for the better, as far as humans were concerned. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If he said NO NO, he could be sent to Tule Lake camp in northern California where all the “disloyal” were to be assembled for what most people believed would be eventual repatriation to Japan. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z In many parts of the world the fatality rate from parathion is startling: 100 fatal cases in India and 67 in Syria in 1958, and an average of 336 deaths per year in Japan. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In less than two hours over Pearl Harbor, Japan badly wounded the American navy and killed more than 2,400 people. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z “Being born poor in the U.S. gives you disadvantages unlike anything in Western Europe and Japan and Canada.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z How can we resolve this contradiction between Japan’s presumably ancient language and all that other evidence for recent origins? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One month later, on August 24, 1941, they arrived in Japan and went to the monastery, which was run by German monks, to start their jobs on the farm. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z First, Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in early December 1941, a little more than four years ago. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z So, maybe that was now, these past few weeks here in Japan. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He was invited in the spring of 2008 to tour Japan and the United States. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In Japan, his mother’s paternal heritage included a long line of men of the sword—samurai—and these men held an honorable role in society. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “Good. Now let’s go see what Japan is like.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z They not only spoke Japanese exclusively, they spoke a dialect peculiar to Kyushu, where their families had come from in Japan, a rough, fisherman’s language, full of oaths and insults. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Luckily, however, M. Yoshoto said the picture belonged to his cousin, who was away visiting relatives in Japan. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z After the German surrender, he brought one more argument to the table: using the bomb on Japan would fatally compromise America’s moral and humanitarian standing, undermining any efforts to create a workable international control regime. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Trying to prevent Fischer’s escape to Iceland, various agencies in the United States accelerated their pursuit of Bobby, putting more pressure on Japan to extradite him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Everybody seemed to be waiting for more, so she added, “My parents came to Japan because...they wanted to open a restaurant here like they had in America.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z In 1931, Japan tested the waters, invading the Chinese province of Manchuria and setting up a fiercely oppressive puppet state. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Day after day in Japanese school at Tule Lake, she’d thought about whether she would really ever go to Japan and when. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Dalian has become for Japan what Bangalore has become for America and the other English- speaking countries: outsourcing central. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z I walked toward them with those tiny feather steps you expect of a girl in Japan, and lowered myself to the floor, determined not to cry, but the sting was already gathering in my eyes. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In January 1944, the country renounced its diplomatic ties with Germany, Japan, Italy, and their Axis allies. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z She closed her eyes and pictured the three most beautiful places in Japan. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Saemi, this is Bobby. I need your help. I’m a prisoner in Japan and I want to get asylum in Iceland. Can you help me?” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Germany formed an alliance with Japan, which had a powerful military of its own, and dreams of building an empire in Asia. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z How pleased Papa will be to hear of this reception, and to know Toyo is well, and how proud he'll be when Woody returns to tell what a family they come from in Japan. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Temperatures, rainfall, and humidity all increased, raising plant productivity to the modern high levels for which Japan is preeminent among temperate-zone countries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was a remarkable achievement that Japan, unlike so many other non-European countries, preserved its political independence and culture while emerging from isolation and creating an industrialized society in the late 19th century. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z All those momentous consequences of pottery triggered a population explosion, causing Japan’s population to climb from an estimated few thousand people to a quarter of a million. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The adoption of intensive food production from the Asian mainland was also very slow and piecemeal in Japan, probably because the hunter-gatherer lifestyle based on seafood and local plants was so productive there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Jomon Japan was a conservative miniature universe that maintained its isolation and changed surprisingly little over the course of 10,000 years—an island of stability in a fragile, rapidly changing contemporary world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Isn’t telling about something—using words, English or Japanese—already something of an invention? Isn’t just looking upon this world already something of an invention?” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z That same day Truman and Churchill issued the Potsdam Declaration—a final demand that Japan end the fighting. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A famous example involves Japan’s abandonment of guns. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A year before Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Bill Harvey signed up with the FBI. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z They had just brought Kuwaiti oil to Japan, and were returning to Kuwait for more. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “There is no one in the Laboratory who should feel that he or she did not have a part in the bombing of Japan,” Henry Reid said to the lab’s employees. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z They imagined the quick, sweet pain, then the evacuation to Japan, then a hospital with warm beds and cute geisha nurses. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z If it cost this much to take just one small island, invading the big islands of Japan would be too terrible to imagine. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Korea and Japan adopted rice from China in the second millennium B.C., bronze metallurgy by the first millennium B.C., and writing in the first millennium A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I hear Japan is expensive. Let’s go there.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z With no supporting evidence, it was believed that Japanese Americans would act as spies and saboteurs for Japan. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “I can tell Japan is different. You can feel it even when you’re just walking down the path. I can feel it now!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z America declares war on Japan, and Germany declares war on America. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Haupt told his mother, aunt, and uncle about his travels to Mexico, Japan, and Germany. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z She had studied in Japan for several years. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The newspaper is splashed with headlines about the surprise attack and the announcement that President Roosevelt has asked Congress to declare war on Japan. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z All these facts seem to suggest that the Japanese reached Japan recently from the East Asian mainland and displaced the Ainu, who represent the original inhabitants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They were Japanese girls in America during a time when America was fighting a war with Japan—did any of them want to deny it? Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Eyeing their nation’s resource-rich neighbors, Japan’s leaders saw the prospect of economic independence, and something more. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z But over time they added the stories of other places in the world: chapters about China, India, Persia, Japan, and other places. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “It is spirit of Japan. No, ‘spirit’ not right word. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z But China and Japan never developed that kind of oppressive feudal system, because feudalism simply can’t work in a rice economy. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It exposed them to lethal levels of radiation, but reduced Japan’s nuclear contamination tenfold. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z We had drunk several glasses of brandy and I said yes by God on Bulgaria too and on Japan. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Sister Mary Suzanne was about forty then, a frail, gentle woman from Japan who could speak no English. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Another time, over in Japan, I was helping load a ship, and I sat down to rest a minute. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Discussions about the control of nuclear arms and use of the bomb on Japan had been going on since 1943. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “When you negotiate with the customer in Japan for building a house,” he explained, “you would sketch out a floor plan—most of these companies don’t use computers.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z “And now we were winging toward Japan,” he said, “surrounded by scattered clouds that were edged with reddish gold from the slanting light of the newly risen sun.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered where Rat Kiley was, but Rat Kiley was in Japan. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He was poised for battle against the chess establishment, the Union Bank of Switzerland, the Jews, the United States, Japan, Icelanders in general, the media, processed foods, Coca-Cola, noise, pollution, nuclear energy, and circumcision. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z For the bombing plan to work, we needed an emergency landing field closer to Japan on their way back. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z They had already passed away when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Not too far away were mountains—she had heard that just about everywhere you went in Japan, you could see a mountain. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The system worked with the same magnetic levitation technology used in Germany and Japan to propel bullet trains with magnets instead of wheels. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z In the Pacific, Japan was tearing through China and moving into Indochina. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z “I asked my stylist to use this new snail slime treatment I read about in Vogue. They only use it in Japan right now, but...” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z They’re tourists, from Japan it looks like, a trade delegation perhaps, on a tour of the historic landmarks or out for local color. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I missed my mother's funeral because I was on business in Japan, and I didn't think she would want me there after the letter she sent after Dad's funeral. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z And, weirdly, they had a bunch of fans in Japan. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z So our leaders were trying to defeat Japan in other ways. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The lakes, rivers, Inland Sea, Sea of Japan to the west, and Pacific Ocean to the east teem with fish such as salmon, trout, tuna, sardines, mackerel, herring, and cod. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Weeks later, Japan withdrew as host of the 1940 Olympics, and the Games were transferred to Finland. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Despite its distinctiveness even in East Asia at that time, Jomon Japan was not a completely isolated universe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The United States cut off oil exports to Japan. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, we code talkers were the first to receive the message that Japan had surrendered. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1938, Nazi Germany was a rising threat, and so was Imperial Japan. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z After Japan's defeat in 1945, control of the Korean Peninsula split down the middle, at the 38th parallel, a line that cut the nation neatly in half. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z They were all so respectful and stiff with her, that she might have been the Empress of Japan. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The sides were set for the biggest and deadliest war in history—the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union led the Allied Powers against the Axis Powers of Germany, Japan, and Italy. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Shallow seas now surround much of Japan and coastal East Asia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps it was left over from her dream in which an unseen monster made its way toward her small fishing village in Japan, and she was expected to do battle with it. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It helped them in Europe as well, thanks to Japan’s ambassador in Berlin, who used Purple to relay Hitler’s detailed war plans to Tokyo. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Isn’t that prominence just an ephemeral phenomenon of the last few centuries, now fading behind the prominence of Japan and Southeast Asia? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “A neighbor. A Japan man. He lives alone. I do not know him.” Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z “It is more than going back to Japan,” Mama said. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z These packets can then be sent around China or Japan for typing, depending on the specialty required, and then reassembled at the company’s database in its Tokyo headquarters. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z They’d come from biotech companies and academia; they’d traveled from New York, England, the Netherlands, Alaska, Japan, and everywhere between to discuss the future of cell culture. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The only Europeans who knew tea were those few who worked in India, China, or Japan. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He told them about their adventures to Mexico, Japan, and Germany. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z While 80 percent of Japan’s land area consists of mountains unsuitable for agriculture and only 14 percent is farmland, per square mile of that farmland Japan supports a population density eight times that of Britain’s. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Urutoraman is Japan’s greatest superhero. His powers belong in Japanese hands.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In Japan and many other countries, such explanations are still advanced publicly and without apology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Instead, Japan’s trade contacts, such as they were, involved Korea. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z On the face of it, these facts would appear to suggest that the Ainu are descended from Japan’s original inhabitants, and that the Japanese are descended from more recent arrivals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Japan’s military had taken such a beating by this point, the country was nearly defenseless against American air raids. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Here was the Congo, here was Japan, here was Albania, here was Cairo—snippets of the world replicated and sterilized, confined behind walls and fences like animal exhibits. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The reason for the leap in activity was ominous: Japan, Germany, and Italy were signing an alliance pact. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The girl studied her, ignored the question, then asked, “Why did you come back to Japan?” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z If the Japanese did replace the Ainu over Japan south of Hokkaido, that replacement must have occurred before A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In Japan, sumo is not only the national sport but also a repository of the country’s religious, military, and historical emotion. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In Japan people had different ways of saying things depending on the standing of whom they were talking to. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Her father, a strawberry farmer, had come from Japan, from people who had been pottery makers for as long as anyone in his prefecture could remember. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “So why did you come to Japan if you aren’t loyal to the emperor?” the small girl scoffed. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The straightforward amputations were flown right to Japan for treatment in the modern hospital, but the more severely wounded had to be stabilized for the trip over. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “But it won’t be easy. Everybody is very poor in Japan. While you were sleeping, your mother spoke with one of the soldiers. He said you can’t imagine how poor.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z They knew his real name, Akihide Karatsu, and they also appeared to have his home address, an apartment building in Osaka, Japan. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Some transit needles, heading off to Norway or Japan or something. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Japans technological capabilities appeared to be far inferior to those of Germany, and the Japanese regime’s threat to the world of a much more limited order. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Outside again, they were back in the powerless world of Japan. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Perhaps because it contains some of Japan’s best agricultural land, where super-expensive Kobe beef is raised today, and where Japan’s ancient capital was located at Kyoto until the capital’s shift to Tokyo in 1868. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z So he told his friend Wergin there was a freighter they could board that was heading to Japan with a stop in California. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Suzuki and Bosnitch appealed to the courts on Bobby’s behalf for him to become a political refugee from the United States and be allowed to live in Japan. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “They all went back to Japan after they lost to the Americans.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Soon after Japan's surrender, Robert Oppenheimer got on a train and headed east. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z To stop that dangerous idea, in the 1880s, growers turned to men from Japan. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z But the world’s oldest known pottery was made in Japan 12,700 years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For a man raised in Japan, there was no greater disgrace. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Also widespread in Japan is the theory that the Japanese are descended from horse-riding Central Asian nomads who passed through Korea to conquer Japan in the 4th century A.D. but who were emphatically not Koreans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the nut-rich forests of northern Japan, nut storage pits were especially important, along with seal hunting and sea fishing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Okinawa still lay ahead of us, and then the other islands of Japan. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The chronicles are also full of accounts of Koreans in Japan and of Japanese in Korea—interpreted by Japanese or Korean historians respectively as evidence of Japanese conquest of Korea or the reverse. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Located on the southeastern coast of Japan, the city stood on six long, flat islands. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As for Japan’s climate, its rainfall, ranging up to 160 inches per year, makes it the wettest temperate country in the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It made her dizzy to think that her father didn’t actually belong here in Japan, and as a matter of fact, maybe her parents belonged nowhere in the world, not here and not there. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Argentina to promote his Fischer Random variation...and to the Philippines, China, and Japan for social and business reasons. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z If he had to read the names of the ministers of Japan or Zaire, or any name containing more consonants than vowels, or more vowels than consonants, he would embarrass himself. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z He came back from Japan with his mustache thicker and bearing a sword that had been in the family for 300 years—a gift from Aunt Toyo. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Rafik wanted to be reborn in Japan so he could ride the bullet train. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I suspect that the Korean language that was carried to Japan in 400 B.C., and that evolved into modern Japanese, was quite different from the Silla language that evolved into modern Korean. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I was tricked. Yes, I was. I saw the pretty color and believed it was sweet. I know there is no sugar in Japan for cake. But I saw the pretty color.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z New information about Japanese genetics and language origins, accumulating since the book’s first publication, now encourages me to test how Japan fits into my overall framework. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Even though most of Japan escaped the glaciers that blanketed Britain and Canada, Japan was still cold, dry, and extensively covered with conifer and birch forests offering little plant food to humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As it was, he sparked fights with the jailers and eventually was transferred to the East Japan Immigration Detention Center in Ushiku, forty miles northeast of Tokyo. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They kept their identities a secret, but they did reveal that they were both Japanese, which made them instant celebrities in Japan. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Scientists in Japan, England, India, the U.S., they're all looking at information from ten different instruments on board. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z What if he’d just come back from France, or Japan, sleepless with ideas, only to find that he’d been engaged to some sweet country miss? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z In Asia, Japan’s leaders had designs of equal magnitude. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z When I got back to Alpha Company twenty-six days later, in mid-December, Rat Kiley had been wounded and shipped off to Japan, and a new medic named Bobby Jorgenson had replaced him. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Worse, the plants themselves grew bigger than is usual in Japan— nobody knows why. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Navy divers, or "frogmen," used a mini-submarine to place a "pod" on an important Soviet underwater communications cable in the Sea of Okhotsk, north of Japan and near the eastern coast of the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z My minimal coverage of Japan in previous editions of Guns, Germs, and Steel constituted the most important geographic lacuna of my book. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z "No, I have been in Mexico and South America and had someone send the cablegram for me from Japan," Haupt lied. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z He was killed in a freakish explosion while he was with the Army of Occupation in Japan. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z The most important new elements were Japan’s first metal tools, of iron, and its first undisputed full-scale agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They understood things of the spirit in Japan. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Japan would have been a country, though—it was more than a thousand years old, at least. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Arles and its surroundings look the way he imagines Japan. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Where they disagreed was that Lawrence believed that goal had been reached by the bombing of Japan; Oppenheimer, by contrast, feared that the bombs of August had made it more remote than ever. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Preschool in three cultures—Japan, China, and the United States. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z In the late 1930s, both Germany and Japan were ready to move. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z There had been hikikomori in Japan since back before the turn of the century, but their number had skyrocketed after the hunt for Halliday’s Easter egg began. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Word has it,” Marie-Laure overhears one taxidermist telling another, “the stone is from Japan, it’s very ancient, it belonged to a shogun in the eleventh century.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She had one foot in her parents’ home, and from there it was not far at all to the Japan they had left behind years before. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z On December 7, 1941, the Axis power Japan surprised the United States with an air attack on the naval base at Pearl Harbor in the territory of Hawaii. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z A year and a half before, Jamie had made a big purchase; he had spent his birthday money and part of his Christmas money on a transistor radio, made in Japan, purchased from Woolworth’s. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z They were from Japan, both of them bom there, and there was this law on the books prevented them. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The national anthem, I later learned, is what he had sung every morning as a schoolboy in Japan. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The number one country in the world for drowning, accidental or otherwise, is Russia, which has twice as many deaths as the next highest, Japan. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z By late 1944, their ships could no longer get into or out of Japan without being attacked by our submarines. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He painted a horrible but masterful picture of Fascism’s aggression in Germany, Italy, and Japan. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Like she wondered if all the terrible things she’d heard about Japan right before camp were true, but she also hoped all the wonderful things she’d heard about Japan inside of Tule Lake were true. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Here in Japan, she could see there were no plates of choices. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “The Americans will fight; that’s what’s going to happen. You saw what they did to Japan in the big war. Got them out of our country for good! They’ll flatten those Commies in no time.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Nikkei were people of Japanese descent, whether they were citizens of America, Japan, or any other country. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He’d been traveling for twelve years between Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, the Philippines, Japan, Austria, and other countries, clearing customs and crossing borders without incident. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z While Palsson was en route to Japan, a group of stalwart Icelanders met in Reykjavik to discuss whether there was any way asylum could be offered to Fischer. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Lewis Strauss, who had succeeded Dean as AEC chairman, unjustly labeled the boat a likely “Red spy ship,” intensifying the furor in Japan and creating a very public black eye for the American testing program. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z From the American base in Japan, Horan and other members of the 3rd Recon were deployed into Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Our next stop was Osaka, Japan, and I slept most of the way. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Other hunter-gatherers, in Palestine, coastal Peru, and Japan, became sedentary first and adopted food production much later. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They had said he was in Japan, and then they said he was in the Philippines. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z So all three of the most beautiful places in Japan had to do with water. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Robert Oppenheimer and World War II. Salk found a vaccine that prevented polio, and Oppenheimer helped create the bombs that were dropped on Japan and ended the war. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z He joined the Signal Intelligence Service early in the war and mastered the Japanese language in three months in order to join the fight to crack Japan's secret military communications. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It opened the door to the invasion of Japan and the end of the Pacific War. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The stolen painting was probably in Switzerland or Brazil or Japan. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z She and her husband both came from Japan, and her long aristocratic face was always a ghastly white. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Papa had lived in Japan from when he was nine until he was eighteen, and he was thirty-five now. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Unlike Zaire or Paraguay, Japan and the other new powers were able to exploit the transistor quickly because their populations already had a long history of literacy, metal machinery, and centralized government. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The sensei talked about the samurai and the feudal period in Japan, but she didn’t use the word “samurai.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The crows of Japan are famous for being mean. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Japan and the United States declare war on North Korea. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z But in Japan or China, farmers didn’t have the money to buy equipment—and, in any case, there certainly wasn’t any extra land that could easily be converted into new fields. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z When I interviewed Jenkins, he and his family lived on Japan’s remote Sado Island, where his wife was born and where North Korean agents had kidnapped her. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The government of Japan also wanted the island. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Thousands of US troops were already stationed at American bases in occupied Japan, just a short hop across the Sea of Japan from Korea. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Most men had to go back to Japan to find a woman, or take their chances on a “picture bride.” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z They were the first people ever to live in northern Japan. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z With Japan posing a growing threat in the Pacific, the United States couldn’t afford to have that happen again. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z There were pigs that had Made in Japan on them. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z In Japan, she said, a person learned not to complain or be distracted by suffering. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Will they send me for R and R in Japan? The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Ice Age Japan was not a great place to live. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Starting points for understanding Japan’s unique culture are its unique geography and environment. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For instance, there is much archaeological evidence for exchanges of people and material objects between Japan and Korea in the period A.D. 300-700. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When the war began, the government had put Nishina in charge of fission bomb research in Japan. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, in proportion to its available area of farmland, Japan is the most densely populated major society in the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t bring soap because Mama said they would have that in Japan. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “I have an announcement to make. We have just dropped a new bomb on Japan which has more power than twenty thousand tons of TNT. It has been an overwhelming success!” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time of Christ, cereals of Fertile Crescent origin were growing over the 8,000-mile expanse from the Atlantic coast of Ireland to the Pacific coast of Japan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Central to the Japanese identity was the belief that it was Japan’s divinely mandated right to rule its fellow Asians, whom it saw as inherently inferior. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z “Lord Apollo has been going through this haiku phase ever since he visited Japan. ’Tis not as bad as the time he visited Limerick. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z They saved their money in canning jars, then wrote home to their parents in Japan requesting wives be sent. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Jomon people lived at some of the highest population densities ever estimated for hunter-gatherers, especially in central and northern Japan with its nut-rich forests, salmon runs, and productive seas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He would read about Japan’s losses during those final weeks of the Pacific war and claim he had predicted it. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you really think that the United States of America is in a state of war with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan?” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, there are also the famous differences between the productivities of the economies of whole countries, such as Japan, the United States, France, and Germany. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “A boy should not lose his baseball jacket. We like baseball very much in Japan. There is no baseball during war. Everybody miss it.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Some crops were probably domesticated first or independently in Japan, Korea, and tropical Southeast Asia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But, they said, Japan is an ally of England. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Despite stern warnings from the United Nations Security Council, North Korea fires a second missile, striking Osaka, Japan. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z If the Allies were going to use the bomb against Japan, they wanted it to have maximum shock value—they wanted it to come out of nowhere. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nose tombs” in Japan still contain the noses cut off of 20,000 Koreans and brought to Japan as trophies of a 16th-century Japanese invasion of that country. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Almost as if the spirits she knew lived in the mountains of Japan had stopped the chaos from spreading. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Papa! When you were a child in Japan, did you fit in?” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z But there are detailed differences that prove important: Japan is somewhat larger and more distant. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Food aid from the United States, Japan, South Korea, and other donors mitigated the worst of the famine by the late 1990s. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Has he brought me all the way here, asked me his questions—Is this your first time in Japan? Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z So that was the best thing she could think of about going to school in Japan. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Aboard a ship called the Star Castor he saw the Persian Gulf, Japan, Australia, and Baltimore. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He, my father, and my mother were Kibei, which meant they were born in the United States but were sent to Japan for their education. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Twenty times more Neolithic sites have thereby been discovered in Japan than in the whole of China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “It is not to be released on Japan without express authority from the president,” George Marshall ordered Groves. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z One single bombing raid over Japan’s capital of Tokyo set off a firestorm that killed 100,000 people. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It read: So when we reach The Isle of Japan With our caps at a Jaunty Tilt We’ll enter the city of Tokyo On the roads the Seabees Built. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just like the maglev bullet trains in Japan.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Its “Sinification” involved the drastic homogenization of a huge region in an ancient melting pot, the repopulation of tropical Southeast Asia, and the exertion of a massive influence on Japan, Korea, and possibly even India. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Americas are still inching westward and will eventually collide with Japan. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It might seem that entirely new rules apply to competition between the world’s peoples, and that as a result new powers are emerging—such as Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, and especially Japan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “So,” Hideo says as we head down the hall to the main atrium, “your first time in Japan, isn’t it?” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z As a consequence, most Fertile Crescent crops grow well in France and Japan but poorly at the equator. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, American bombers were pounding Japan night after night, flattening and burning entire cities. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z That combination of high rainfall and summer rains gives Japan the highest plant productivity of any nation in the temperate zones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Hanako, surprised, said, “Well, I know Japan lost and the United States won.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He was not well educated at all—he’d never even finished high school in Japan—but anyway, that was what he was accused of. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Her quest for Everest had turned into a minor cause celebre in Japan. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z His work hours changed so that they would overlap with the working day in Japan. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Three weeks later, two American atomic bombs forced Japan to surrender. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z On the islands of Japan, many people wished the war to end. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Roosevelt asked Congress for an immediate declaration of war on Japan, and got it. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Japan’s Emperor Akihito, who reigns today, is the 82nd direct descendant of the emperor under whom that first chronicle of A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was a tense time for everybody, Sanders said, but for Rat Kiley it ended up in Japan. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She thought about how she fit in this house, but she didn’t fit in Japan. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “We must raise food. There is not enough food in Japan.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It was Japan that struck first, in 1937, sending its armies smashing into the rest of China. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z It made Hanako realize that even though Baachan was extremely happy that they were all together in Japan now, her face today had something sad in it. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The Axis powers—that was what they called Japan, Germany, and Italy—would quickly crumble. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He would read about the Russians moving into Korea and grumble that if the Americans occupied Japan there’d be another war within ten years, maybe five. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Supposedly, there were thousands of Nikkei being sent to Japan on this very ship. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The Ainu people of Japan made the experiment by routinely rearing grizzly cubs as part of a ritual. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Policy decisions were not usually made by Japan’s emperor, Hirohito. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z These hallmarks of war in Yayoi Japan corroborate the earliest accounts of Japan in Chinese chronicles, which describe the land of Wa and its hundred little political units fighting with one another. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That was saying something in light of Hitler’s rise in Europe, the Nazi persecution of Jews, the New England hurricane, the business and employment slump, and the war between China and Japan. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z They were lower class, uneducated Japanese who been taken from their homes in Japan and forced by their army to work building the air field. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn't tell them about his trips to Japan or Germany. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Today, Japan is the largest catcher, importer, and consumer of fish in the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In addition, guns were a foreign invention and grew to be despised, as did other things foreign in Japan after 1600. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Like her, many of the people on this ship had probably never been to Japan. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Pilgrims from Ghana, Indonesia, Japan, and Russia, to mention some, were moving to and from die dormitory where I was being taken. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew he was the one who had made the radio announcement to all of Japan declaring that the nation was surrendering to the Allied forces. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The conference ended with the passing of a multitude of resolutions dealing with China, India, Germany, Japan, and conditions afflicting various parts of the earth. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Immediately, the media began implying that the alleged marriage was just a ploy to help Fischer obtain his release and live in Japan, but Suzuki disagreed: “It was already a de-facto marriage,” she said. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She leaned in very close and said, “Hana-chan, we will find you one cute skirt somewhere in Japan. But you have to make sure to hold your head high no matter what you are wearing.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It seemed that in the thirteenth century, Mongolia sent a huge fleet of ships to invade Japan. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z If he ran a line just south of the channel islands and rocks, there was nothing until the Philippines, nothing until Japan but ocean, and that was where Owen wanted to be. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the thing about Japan: she had never been there. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I don’t mean to leave the impression that every one of these foods that I’ve mentioned was eaten everywhere throughout Jomon Japan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In an effort to stop Japan, President Franklin Roosevelt imposed ever-increasing embargoes on materiel, such as scrap metal and aviation fuel. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Wergin planned to get off in California, but a couple of days into the journey, he found out the freighter was heading directly to Japan. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z This conclusion is likely to be equally unpopular in Japan and in Korea, because of the current mutual dislike of those two peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A milk producer in northern Japan cannot hope to compete in southern Japan, because transporting milk there would take an extra day or two, a fatal disadvantage in the eyes of consumers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Accounts of excavations appear almost daily on TV and on the front page of Japan’s largest newspapers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Compared with later eras, what is impressive about Jomon Japan is not that some contact with the outside world did occur but that it had so little influence on Jomon society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Furious, the United States at last joined the global conflict by declaring war on Japan the next day. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z But as Wohlstetter points out, that wasn’t because the American military didn’t know enough about Japan’s intentions. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Although rice was the most important Yayoi crop, 27 other crops new to Japan plus unquestionably domesticated pigs were grown as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He kept saying, “America and Japan strong, but China is the future place.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “We ought to proceed with Japan in a way which will produce as quickly as possible her surrender,” Stimson told the president. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I do business with Chinese pirates all the time. I’d love to visit China. I’m also dying to go see Japan. It’s on my bucket list.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Similar wave surges claimed yet more victims as far away as Japan and the Philippines. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Ben emptied one box that held ashtrays from Japan, four statues of Buddha in various postures and degrees of corpulence, six oriental silk screens, and two camel seats from Morocco. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z If the atomic bomb could shock Japan into giving up, it had to be used. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Nobody had said “survive” and “Japan” in the same sentence. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Poor in natural resources, its trade crippled by high tariffs and low demand, Japan was struggling to support a growing population. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z It all came down to the progress of the war with Japan. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The recruits were to commit "minor sabotage of a nuisance nature," to prey on America's fear and provoke prejudice against any person possibly connected to Germany, Japan, and Italy. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The earliest preserved likenesses of Japan’s inhabitants are statues called baniwa, erected outside tombs around 1,500 years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In reality, that’s not true: on the average across all industries, America’s industrial productivity is higher than that in either Japan or Germany. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She had a feeling that practically everyone in Japan was depressed. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Paraguay’s right-wing national police chief, for example, named his son Adolfo Hirohito, a tribute to Hitler and his soon-to-be ally, the emperor of Japan. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The flights our new Boeing B-29 bomber planes were now making from the Marianas Islands to Japan and back were very long. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Our other plan was to bomb Japan’s cities and factories. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “We still have the war against Japan to win.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Papa had no reason to return to Japan. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Ever since Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor, the United States had been demanding unconditional surrender. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Southwest, in the western Mediterranean, on the Atlantic coast of Europe, and in parts of Japan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Nobody had said so, but she knew that if she did not have much future in Japan, neither did he. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z And now her family was on this gigantic ship, going across the ocean to live with her father’s elderly parents in Japan. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Our tribal council met at Window Rock and declared war on Germany, Japan, and Italy. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z China also transmitted West Asian wheat and barley to Korea and Japan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Shoot down every hostile aircraft that appears over Japan,” said Nishina. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She was starting to realize that “maybe” and “or something” were going to be part of her life here in Japan. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z As scientists, we deplore the use to which a beautiful discovery has been put, but we can assure you that unless Japan surrenders at once, this rain of atomic bombs will increase manyfold in fury. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “So the United States has declared war on Japan?” asked Mother. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z However, in Japan, all the newspapers made it sound as if their kamikaze missions were great successes. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z They specified, “This demonstration might be over enemy territory, or in our own country, with subsequent notice to Japan that the materials would be used against the Japanese mainland unless surrender was forthcoming.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z By then, Seaborg would observe, the existence of element 94 had been revealed to the world “in the most dramatic form possible”: with a detonation in the skies above Nagasaki, Japan. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Japanese forest composition varies with latitude and altitude: evergreen leafy forest in the south at low altitude, deciduous leafy forest in central Japan, and coniferous forest in the north and at high altitude. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The beetles, at first unrecognized, were finally identified as a common inhabitant of the main islands of Japan. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The real power in Japan during World War Two was held by the Supreme Military Council, who assured the emperor that their decisions were best for their nation. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z She had been the one, forty years before, who gave Papa the money he needed to leave Japan and sail to the Hawaiian Islands. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z She did not think of Japan as the land of Ainu, but rather as the land of her parents and the land where Lynn and I would eventually get sent to learn our femininity. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Like Japan, which exports consumer electronics and imports beef from the United States and wheat from Australia, Chichen Itza apparently traded its way through the drought. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “You’re all welcome to crash with me. But I don’t think I can make it to Columbus, Vancouver, and Japan in the next thirty-six hours.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But there were also factors working against the acceptance of firearms in Japan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Although they were eager to get to Japan, a lot of our military leaders also dreaded that thought. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Collins had found a young woman who’d come over to Japan with her family, though she herself had not renounced. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z All his houses have been furnished with imports from Japan and Europe. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z An officer walked in and handed him a message that had just come in from Secretary of War Stimson, along with a map of Japan. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a powerful military organization called the Thought Police in Japan. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the biggest gaps in GGS’s geographic coverage involved Japan, about whose prehistory I had little to say in 1996. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z From then on, I took a special interest in Japan. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Japan seemed to have a sort of orderly lawlessness. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “In America we don’t really understand why Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Here in Japan, maybe this pack was valuable, like butter or sugar. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He worked as a crewman, an engineer, a fisherman—he’d been everywhere from Japan to Cape Town. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The ancient Japanese developed some of the oldest pottery in the world and settled as hunter-gatherers in villages subsisting on Japan’s rich seafood resources, long before the arrival of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Herbie retold his story about traveling to Mexico, Japan, and Germany and returning to America on a U-boat. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z So maybe she would never have a friend here in Japan. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Who are the Japanese, when and whence did they come to Japan, and how did they evolve their unique speech? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Only because Japan was a populous, isolated island could it get away with its rejection of the powerful new military technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And the next morning a telegram from southern Japan reached Tokyo: “The whole city of Hiroshima was destroyed instantly by a single bomb.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Many other nations have now launched spacecraft, including Britain, France, Canada, Japan and China, the society that invented the rocket in the first place. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was from China that the techniques of rice cultivation spread throughout East Asia—Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Ten days hence she was sailing to the States on her way to Japan to marry an American she had known in college. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z |
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