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Island hopping. First the USA Navy invaded certain islands in the Pacific to try and force the Japanese back to Japan. They captured some islands with airbases, and from those islands, sent B-29s to Japan to burn a great many Japanese cities to the ground. Finally when the Japanese refused to surrender, instead of invading Japan, which would have cost hundreds of thousands of casualties, the USA dropped two atomic bombs, and finally Japan surrendered.
During WW II Japan was an empire ruled by an emperor, and was therefore known as Imperial Japan. Sometimes the term Nippon is used instead of Japan. The people of Japan were still known as the Japanese, even during WW II.
He was a general in the Japanese Imperial Army and was Prime Minister of Japan from October 17, 1941 to July 22, 1944.
At the end of World War II, the US occupied Japan. General Douglas MacArthur's staff wrote a constitution which the Japanese still use.
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The Japanese were impressed.
by firebombing japanese cities
Island hopping. First the USA Navy invaded certain islands in the Pacific to try and force the Japanese back to Japan. They captured some islands with airbases, and from those islands, sent B-29s to Japan to burn a great many Japanese cities to the ground. Finally when the Japanese refused to surrender, instead of invading Japan, which would have cost hundreds of thousands of casualties, the USA dropped two atomic bombs, and finally Japan surrendered.
During WW II Japan was an empire ruled by an emperor, and was therefore known as Imperial Japan. Sometimes the term Nippon is used instead of Japan. The people of Japan were still known as the Japanese, even during WW II.
Japanese art is inherently Japanese.
Great blue herons are not native to Japan, so there is likely no ideogram for that species.
Japanese is the nationality.
A great leader that offered much to the Japanese race.
Possibly their "industrial" revolution in the 1860's. But Japan was never a colony like the US was; consequently, who was Japan going to fight to gain independence from? To the general public in America, there was no Japanese Revolutionary War.
After World War II the American occupation forces dismantled Japanese Political Institutions to extend their policies for the Democratisation of Japan, via the SCAP policy. To ensure the Japanese transition from Oligarchy to Democracy, General McArthur's SCAP policy had provisions to remove the Emperors position therefore dismantling the oligarchical aspects of Japanese society however, the Japanese people were against that and the US occupation forces had decided not to rid the Imperial system, instead only changing the position of Imperialism in japan.
Japan uses nuclear power for energy instead of items such as coal and fossil fuels.