Kenji Urata, Professor Emeritus, Waseda University, Japan, Vice President, IALANA . ... I have been to all 3, and at least Korea and Japan worship anything western and especially American. ..…

Hinton pointed to the devastating consequences for China and its inevitable return to being semicolonial country dominated by Western powers and Japan ( This period of expansion internally and abroad is documented by Martin Hart-Landsberg and Paul Burkett in July-August 2004 issue of. ..…

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The readiness of Soviets, at least temporarily, not to contest Western Italy, Greece, Western Europe, and Japan, and the willingness of Western powers to accept Soviet rule in much of Eastern Europe still left open the issue of Poland, at least for while. ..…

Even after the 1911 revolution that overthrew the decadent Manchu dynasty, China was still at the mercy of imperialist powers like Britain, France, and newly active Japan. Intellectuals explored Western ideas to find a way to restore China’s greatness. ..…

A “self-strengthening movement” followed, but this aimed simply at appropriating the technology to build gunboats and other Western material objects. China’s humiliating naval defeat at the hands of Japan in 1895 only confirmed the obsolescence of China’s system of government. ..…

Although both the Japanese and Kyrgyz leaders insisted that no ransom had been paid, Western diplomats reported that Japan had secretly given between two and six million dollars to Kyrgyz officials, who delivered it to the I.M.U. . ..…

it promoted Japan, Germany and Western Europe in the postwar years, and Eastern Europe and other parts of Asia in the 1980s and 1990s, there were large parts of the world where United States was indifferent or even hostile to democracy. ..…