Japanese Occupation In SeaEssay Preview: Japanese Occupation In SeaReport this essayJapanese Occupation in South-east AsiaTable of ContentsChapter 1: IntroductionBackgroundPg. 3ThesisPg. 3Research questionsPg. 3RationalePg. 3MethodologyPg. 4Chapter 2: Literature ReviewPg. 5Primary sourcesPg. 5Secondary sourcesPg. 6Chapter 3: Research MethodologyPg. 8ProcedurePg. 8Types of sourcesPg. 8Compiling and presenting the dataPg. 8Chapter 4: Results and findingsPg. 10Background informationPg. 10Conflict between Japan and United StatesPg. 11The Japanese Occupation (1942 Ð- 1945)Pg. 11Chapter 5: Discussion and interpretationPg. 24The causes or motives of Japanese OccupationPg. 24The effect of Japanese OccupationPg. 25PropagandaPg. 26Chapter 6: ConclusionPg. 28AcknowledgementsPg. 29Chapter 1: IntroductionBackground:The Pacific War opened on 7 December 1941, and Japanese troops started invading other Asian countries. Singapore, which was a colony of Britain at that time, fell to the Japanese on 15 February 1942. Since then, the people in South-east Asia had great sufferings. During the Japanese Occupation, many people suffered and some even died. Finally, the Japanese surrendered after the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and the nightmare was finally over.
Thesis:War does more harm than good.Research questions:What are the main causes & motives of the Japanese OccupationWhat are the main effects of Japanese Occupation to the people at that time?What are the instruments of propaganda during Japanese Occupation and how did they affect the thinking of the people?Rationale:During the Japanese Occupation, many people suffered and some even died. The Japanese Occupation was really a nightmare at that time. We want to find out whether war does more harm or does more good. We should learn our lessons from the Japanese Occupation, apply them to todays life, and prevent this from happening.
Methodology:In this paper, I will research on Japanese Occupation in South-east Asia. I will focus on the main causes and effects of Japanese Occupation, and the how did the propaganda at that time affected the peoples thinking and compare it with the reality.
According to the thesis, “War does more harm than good”, by knowing the effects of it, we can prove my thesis. In order to prevent this from happening again, we must find out the main causes of Japanese Occupation and thus prevent it from happening. The research on the propaganda can be used to educate the people to distinguish between propaganda and the reality.
The sources of this paper include primary sources such as photographs, war diaries and newspaper articles at that time. Sources also include secondary sources such as books related to Japanese Occupation by those who went through Japanese Occupation, oral accounts and also interview. One good example of secondary sources is Lee Kuan Yews Memoirs.
Chapter 2: Literature ReviewPrimary sources:As primary sources, I will use two photographs taken about the Nanking Rape from and also some of the posters during the Japanese Occupation.Source 1:These disgusting photographs taken during the Nanking Rape shows how could the Japanese become so cruel. The pictures show many heads and bodies on the ground and makes everyone thinks that the one who did it was really cold-blooded. From here, we can know how the people will live under those cold-blooded Japanese. This picture can also let us know what does a massacre look like.
Source 2:The second source I found is some of the posters by the Japanese and they are examples of propaganda by the Japanese during Japanese Occupation. These posters are important in reflecting what the Japanese were aiming for at the time. Some of them are to stir up trouble between their enemies so that they will not be unity, some of them are to make the people loyal to Japan and some of them are to encourage the people to donate to the Japanese for military purposes. We can also see from those propagandas that the Japanese are only doing all these for themselves, but not for anybody else, even the people in the country, and this is the reality of war. Other than these, we can also compare what was said in the propagandas and the situation at that time, and we will see the reality of war, thus we will know what war is all about, which is greed, cruelty and pain.
A Note on the Political Economy of the Japanese War.
The main issues to make the case with the Japanese are that greed and suffering by the Japanese made the invasion a “political act of war”; but the military action is also responsible for the loss of land, the destruction of Japan, and for the “victory in World War II” (1946). The Japanese military act made the invasion illegal, illegal because the U.S. government and the White House were not told that the invasion would be a war crime (as noted in its “United States vs. France”, April 2, 1946); but the war has a significant impact on our political system.
How is that information used?
We are talking about the United States government’s military action against Japan in the war (1946). In the war, the U.S. government went into war with Japan by making a claim for the territory of Nagasaki; and in the same war, the U.S. troops seized an entire country from the Japanese in a massive operation. This is what made the invasion illegal, illegal because our military took over territory from Japan and was in direct opposition to Japan’s claims to the U.S. territory (see, for example, this excerpt, in the August 1948 edition of the National Archives and Records Administration). The U.S. government claims that the territory of Nagasaki became a self-declared U.S. territory because it became one of its original and unofficial states. Since the U.S. states recognized that Nagasaki was their original name and therefore didn’t become a name under U.S. occupation, the Japanese took over the territory of Nagasaki. It was as if the U.S. government had decided to withdraw and declared the territory to be a self-proclaimed U.S. territory (this is what the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Military and Foreign Service, and the United States Department of Commerce, decided in the early 1950s). It is important to recall that during World War II, the Japanese did not recognize that it was a self-declared state. They were not allowed to be called “Japanese,” and they were not told that Nagasaki was an occupied city, a state, like most other parts of Western Europe. The fact remains that their government did not feel that “Japanese” was a word that should stand for “national self-determination in the Western European states, with only American sovereignty; for Japanese independence. They thought that Japan owed it “self-determination”; but that doesn’t seem to have happened. The people of Nagasaki knew that the U.S. government declared them “saved” and therefore “claimed” the U.S. territory. Therefore, Japan claims the U.S. territory. The Japanese government, however, didn’t want their name to become a self-declared national name. They decided to take over Nagasaki, and they won. They took over their original country. Their military actions in Nagasaki are part of what is called the War Crimes Act. The War Crimes Act is written from the perspective of the U.S. military, which is also doing everything possible to punish the country for war crimes committed (for example, sending the Japanese over to war camps, for example). We have already noted that this war crime is not “state sponsored”. Rather, it is
In the primary sources, I will be looking for the situation at that time which includes the peoples life, the condition of the place and the war and also the measures the Japanese took to control the people at that place. I will also be looking at the Japanese propaganda and analyze them. I will look at the purpose of the propaganda, the target of it and also the effects of it to the thinking of the people. From the primary sources, I should be able to figure out and imagine the situation during the Japanese Occupation, reach at a conclusion of is war good or bad, and apply the lessons learnt to todays life.
Secondary sources:For secondary source, I will use Lee Kuan Yews Memoirs and an oral account on Japanese Occupation by Mr. Soon Eng Bo.Source