Japan+and+Pacific

Japan and Pacific

EAST ASIA IN THE POSTWAR SETTLEMENTS //New Divisions and the End of Empires// MI:
 * **Taiwan** was restore to China and ruled by Chiang Kai-shek
 * United States regain Philippines and grant independence and retain military bases.
 * European powers restoring control over Vietnam, Malaya, Indonesia
 * Japan was control by American forces to introduce changes and prevent recurrence of military aggression
 * Taiwan still in control of Chiang Kai-shek
 * Chinese lands --> ruled by communism
 * south and north Korea was occurred by U.S in south, while communism in the north

//Japanese Recovery// MI:
 * 1945, Japanese cities were burned and factories were destroyed or idle and people surrender --> atomic bomb
 * General Douglas MacArthur --> tear Japan wartime political structure
 * American--> democratization of Japanese society giving women to vote, encouraging labor unions, abolish Shintoism as state religion.
 * civil liberties were guaranteed, gender equality in marriage and collective bargaining rights exist
 * **Liberal Democratic party** ~ two parties join together in 1955 to monopolized Japan's government
 * Japan--> multiparty democracy with unusual emphasis on one-party control in interests of order and elite control.
 * women were granted to vote but conditions were different from men
 * American reduce nationalism in textbooks and opening secondary schools to more social groups in education

//Korea: Intervention and War// MI:
 * 1948- United States sponsored the **Republic in Korea**, which in the south the Soviet takes control with **People's Democratic Republic in Korea.**
 * North Korea became a communist state with Stalinist-type in power as a leader
 * South Korea was head by nationalist Syngman Rhee--> created institutions that were parliamentary in form buy maintain strong independence.
 * 1950, North Korea forces attack on on South Korea--> **Korean War**, which allied forces push North Korea back.

//Emerging Stability in Taiwan// MI:
 * 1946-1948, Guomindang, nationalist, regime prepared to fall back in reacquired island, which communist could not be threaten with no navy.
 * **Hong Kong** remain to the British colony ~ 1980s, Britain and China agree to return Chinese fold
 * British abandon power in east Asia-> Singapore gain free port and became an independent nation in 1965.

JAPAN INCORPORATE //Japan's Distrinctive Political and Cultural Style// MI:
 * Liberal Democratic party held reins of government in 1955 and onward
 * government actively campaigned to promote birth control, abortion, and growth population to slow down
 * Education and politics --> important Japanese traditional element giving aesthetic and spiritual satisfaction amid rapid economic change
 * customary styles in poetry, paintings, tea ceremonies, and flowe arrangements continued.

//The Economic Surge// MI:
 * drinking existed
 * influence by West such as video games and tv
 * Japanese investigated on productive techonology for its military and were negligible to give its reliance on United States production
 * Japanese Athletes to arise to sports such as Tennis
 * children prefer knives and forks instead of chopsticks
 * money invested in chopstick schools

THE PACIFIC RIM: NEW JAPANS? //The Korean Miracle// MI: