The dispute on the Diaoyu islands/senkaku concerns a dispute over territorial ownership of these islands between China and Japan as well as Taiwan. China disputed the transfer of the islands to Japan by the US after its administration of the islands came to the end in 1972. The dispute is worsening, especially, by the islands’ rich nature resource, the shipping lanes and the most important is that natural gas (Lohmeyer, 2008). As Japan argues that a survey of the islands has found them that belong to them, and China provides the evidence that indicates that they belong to China and were taken as part of Japan’s imperial conquests. Although the US has no official position regarding the islands, they have to ensure that any attack on the islands would require the US to aid Japan due to the US and Japan’s Treaty of Mutual Security and Cooperation
As the role that I acted in the simulation is Chinese Community, CFDDI-China Federation of Defending Diaoyu Islands that aims to retrieve the Diaoyu Island. Our main priorities in the dispute are to counterattack the right-wing forces and government of Japan who distort history occupy the Diaoyu Islands illegally and deny the atrocities of war.
Through the years, CFDDI has found many evidence to show that the islands is belongs to China. On ancient Chinese documentation dating back to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and documentation which is evidence that the islands were incorporated into Min and Qing Dynasties’ Maritime defenses in 1556. Therefore, it can obvious be seen that through the centuries before Japan even had claims, the islands has already been under Chinese control and possession.
Also the community tries to counterattack the atrocities that made by Japanese. As China was...
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...e has been worsened as a result of the strategic importance in terms of security and economic as well as the political implications (Pan 2007:71). No matter in the simulation or in reality, both China and Japan has induced the international law to legitimate their claims of sovereignty. Under the jurisdiction of international law, we asserts our ownership under the terms of the Cairo Declaration which were repeated through the Potsdam Declaration specifying that all lands “ stolen” by Japan must be returned. The tensions over the Diaoyu Islands have demonstrated difficulties on the part of Japanese leaders in responding to China's emergence. Indeed, the US will continue to play the role in reining in Japan when it goes wrong in foreign and defense policy, while engaging and calming China in such a way that China and Japan will maintain friendly economic relations.
The Japanese government believed that the only way to solve its economic and demographic problems was to expand into its neighbor’s territory and take over its import market, mostly pointed at China. To put an end on that the United States put economic sanctions and trade embargoes. We believed that if we cut off their resources and their source of federal income than they would have no choice but to pull back and surrender. But the
The motive for Japan’s plan to attack Midway Island was to claim dominant power over the Pacific Ocean and to...
...ce of ordinary people, fear of retribution from the Japanese underground they still believed to be in existence… (Yamamoto p. 190).” Even after the war, the Chinese were so traumatized by the vile actions that they were still afraid that the Japanese army would return to treat as livestock once more.
The United States and Japan have had bad blood between each other ever since the end of the First World War, not just during World War Two. Both the United States and Japan were major industrial powers at the turn of the 1900s, competing with each other on the world stage (Ember, 2011). Also, going back to World War One, the United States, Great Britain, France, and Italy all had leaders that were key in the making of the Treaty of Versailles (Buchanan, 2001). The “Big Four” did not feel the need to allow any country other than them to contribute to the treaty. The countries that wante...
...feat of Japan in World War 2). With the changes of the nature of power, Japan by balancing out aggressive economic policies and a quiet military buildup, was able to build herself up to become a prominent player in the international sphere today. In closing, while Japan’s policies today in general have been skewered towards the arguments of the ‘Gentleman’, increasingly Japan has considered more realist concerns of security in the escalation of tensions of the East Asian geopolitical sphere. Chomin’s Discourse has nonetheless served as a prophetic blueprint for more than a century of Japan policy-making.
Stetson Conn (1990) wrote “For several decades the Japanese population had been the target of hostility and restrictive action.” It was easy for the government to take advantage of the Japanese-Americans because they were already the target of aggression. Since the Japanese population was already in such a low position in society, taking advantage of their circumstances was easy for the government. The Japanese found themselves having to defend their presence in a country that was supposed to be accepting; this also happened to the Chinese before the Japanese. (Terry, 2012)
Takeo argues that the Japanese plan for war with the United States by attacking Pearl Harbor would have “achieve[d] initial battlefield success” but ignored the “absence of rationality in selecting a course of national policy that [. . .] had no prospect for achieving final victory” (61). In other words, Takeo states that while starting a war with the United States would come with initial success, any ultimate success were not to be expected by the Japanese. If Japan was going to ultimately fail, why go into the war in the first place? This question identifies what was ‘weird’ in the Japanese decision-making at the time.
The start of trouble between Japan and the United States was the open door policy. In 1899 the U.S. created the Open Door Policy, which stated that all countries had equal privileges when trading with China. China expressed their displeasure with this policy with the Boxer rebellion, when the boxers of China came together and tried to force foreigners out of China. However, foreign forces overtook them and they were stuck with being open for trade and business. In 1900 Secretary of State John Hay decided to send out a second document, in a response to the Boxer Rebellion, stating that countries should respect China and it integrity, although no replies were requested all of the major powers except Japan agreed to these terms. In 1904-1905 Japan won the Russo-Japanese war; they won because Russia had limited forces available in that area of east Asia, however this battle still proved that Japan could defeat a primary power. In 1910 the power hungry Japan took over Korea by completely annihilating there entire population. During WWI 1914-1918 Japan fought with the great powers against Germany, in the end they received islands near Ch...
Japan has a history that dates back thousands of years. Researchers believe the Japanese people descended from many groups that migrated to the islands from other parts of Asia, including China and Korea. As early as 4500 B.C., the Japanese islands
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... going to have revenge against the Japanese. However, China was too busy forgiving Japan and forming a treaty which never became signed professionally. No apology was made from Japan (The Rape).
Given these sets of circumstances, china, Taiwan and United States have much to gain and even more to lose if an armed conflict erupts in the Taiwan Strait. All three countries have political, economic, and national security issues involved and united states and china are both in competition economic...
So, if Japan does not “belong” to Asia, does it belong to some other amorphous collection of nations, namely Europe or the West? Certainly in the modern post-WWII era Japan has seen phenomenal economic growth, even to the point of threatening the US as the primary global economic power during the height of the “bubble economy.” Some credit this success to the changes implemented during the US occupation. Undoubtedly without US assistan...
Our preliminary class gave a brief, yet detailed outline of major events affecting the East Asian region. Within that class, prompted by our limited geographical knowledge of Asia, we were given a fundamental explanation of the geographical locations of the various events taking place in the region. In subsequent classes, we were introduced to the major wars, political shifts, and economic interests which shaped Japan, China and Korea to what they are today. We examined the paradigm of pre-modern Japanese governance, the Shogunate, and the trained warriors which defended lord and land, Samurai. In addition, we examined the socio-economic classes of Medieval Japan, which included the Samurai, peasants, craftsmen, and the merchants. We also examined pre-1945 Japan’s policies toward foreign entities, notably the Sakoku Policy, which sought to expunge all foreign presence and commerce in an effort to protect its borders and culture. 1945, however, saw ...
Chinas political and military mighty revolutions are clearly demonstrated in East China Sea between China and its customary adversaries Korea and Japan. In the Daily Mail, Chinese adjoining countries and the world see China as an intimidator due to it’s persistent over stepping on its obligation. To show its might China has relocated an oil platform into the disputed waters in the Paracel Island off Vietnam. To achieve this China has applied a 10km safety bounda...