MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD

In twentieth century, Japan is a force in East Asia. With their imperialism in China and Korea, they influenced the East Asia’s cultural, society and so Japanese imperialism mark a dark age of Asia with their civilization. Japan took advantage of their military to imposed Westernization for the neighbor country. Although it was Westernization but mostly Asia got was destruction in culture and people. China consider their women as a tool and a resource to improve their society. Women were being forced to be prostitutes for soldiers after the fight, they were nothing than a tool, broken and being abused. Humanity was not exist in that period of time, people only care about money and power. It was consequence of Imperialism, when Japan follow it they could gain more power and could change their country. After followed Westernization, they had an advance in technology and power. And so they need more resources, more land to expand their ruler. It was reasonable for the ruler of Japan over China and Korea, it gained for them a lot of benefit such as economy growth, power and forces. But their neighbor was not good like it, China suffered by divided government and territories and they also suffered from the action of Japan and Western which made them very difficult in development. Moreover, China and Korea society has been corrupted because of the war. Women became resource for their country, they did not have a voice or a stand in the community and they were nothing more than a tool for men to be pleasure.

Without a doubt imperialism caused much conflict and misery between the citizens of Japan, Korea and China. War was a demonstration of power and a usual tool for expansion. Japan took advantage of it superior military as a means to build debt for neighboring nations, not only to acheive influence but as well as cashing in the debt for land. With imperialism and the empire of japan came nationalism, inspired by the west, in the form of japan radically distinguishing their identity and culture as superior apart from the rest of East Asia. At the same time, china and others found a hole in their growth when woman were seen as untaped resources. Stunting growth as they were approximatly 50% of a popullation. Chinese men took strides to improve and moderize woman to be a more useful and prominent resource in society. This as well relates to woman being forced to become comfort woman for soldiers as seen by Kimiko Kaneda in Korea. Horrible situations in which woman were forced to be prostitutes for soldiers in action being abused, broken and used. Tools for moral recovery in times of war. Its necessary to note the extensive means of human life used and desposed of for imperalism however this is not a new development in history. I would say Japan gained many benefits from imperialism and the empire with growing economic stability, woman roles and power. Yet korea suffered conflict between themselves, china and japan. China was not much better off with the Qing empire as they were constantly humilated by the actions of the western powers and japan, clearly suffering from lack of a central government and divided territories between shogun.

The most well-defined and documented imperialism of the twentieth century was Japanese geographical and cultural expansionism. In a sense, Japanese imperialism in China and especially in Korea furthered East Asian cultural continuity and assimilation; that is, while it is naïve to view all nations of East Asia as monolithic, a forced spread of Japanese and Asian-influenced culture was effected by their imperial efforts during this time. Japan left its mark on Korea and China through a cultural exchange, albeit a somewhat forced exchange. This meant that a common thread of East Asian culture emerged with a vaguely Japanese undertone expressed in their formation of independent nation-states.

As documented in the two primary sources on “comfort women,” Japanese imperialism left an ugly legacy on Asia and the Sino-Korean perception of Japan. With a modernized military and a newly mobilized economy as a result of nationalized “Westernization” applied in tandem with a core preservation of Japanese culture, Japan felt ready to force itself on its neighbors. This was not some benign act of modernization or multilateral cooperation; it was an obfuscated yet overt act of self-proclaimed superiority that left destruction and pain in its wake. Korean and Chinese women were rendered as sex slaves. These sources are likely a microcosm of a broad campaign of rape and indignation that was viewed as a justifiable collateral damage or simply the spoils of war. As mentioned by the esteemed Professor Bonk of the College of Wooster, modern China commemorates the date of the Nanking Massacre to ensure that imperial Japan’s atrocities in the Asian theatre are not forgotten, which is a tacit statement of unresolved resent between them regarding this dark period in Asia’s history.

Imperialism, a concept that made the world suffer. A statement that is agreed by a majority in the world at this time. I argue to defend some parts of Imperialism was needed to be brought. In class one point was made “what is the death toll which we are ready to overlook?”. To answer that question there is no death toll which can be overlooked but my point is that this was a consequence of people abusing power. To blame imperialism for this will be unfair, for the purpose simplicity I will keep my discussion to industrial and technological advances Imperialism was a concept which kept the West at an advantage as their way of life and govern was considered the norm for the world. This was a time when industrialization and technological advances was key. At this junction countries were ready to invade others for resources. This was when the ideas that imperialism which forced a rapid change in region where ideas had been stagnated were introduced. Through psychological understanding we know change is mostly viewed negatively. This resistance was met with force, which was not needed, but when these changes where adopted things were pointed to better future. I bring to my support China and Japan which moved to a direction with imperialistic ideas. These countries lead the country now in their economic and technological advances respectively. The ideas of industrialization and technological advances would have come to the East at a later time what imperialism was able to do was bring it to them faster. This was good and bad, as this was information that made less sense as life was different to the East. These ideas had to be adopted as if not taken control then other countries would deplete the country out of resources. A prime example is India. I will not get into more details as the conversation is never ending.

Imperialism though negative gave the East the resources to move to a better future if it was adopted.

1900s, a time when the world was at a need for cotton. A time when British power was still considered the rule of the world. This a time zone which is thought to be peak time for imperialism. Not because it was spreading like wildfire, but it was about to change forever. This junction was when thoughts of change were being put down, but action was less. We travel to place in South East Asia which was about to exploited for its cotton. Bombay, India. Considered by many the golden bird this region was now being looked at for two reasons. One was the Suez canal was now active so getting from Europe to India was less work and two now cotton need was high as other places had depleted their resources. This attention to Bombay changed the city to a hub of transport and India to a milking factory for raw materials. Investment was made for the soul purpose for profit. With the help of people on the ground in India, Britain was able to set up factories and pursue laws to increase production of cotton. This was done by giving loans to farmers which were unfair. This was a major shift in the labor market in India as the people who owned farmland were conned out of their land and new factory work became available. This made the labor more progressive for industrialization, but all this was not done for better for the region or the people. The profit mentality drove the land to the ground and was spark of social driven parties which wanted freedom.

Small changes lead to a big movement in India whose ground work was put down small things like cotton industry.

 

The civil war was a vicious battle fought from 1861-1865. We uncover the truth of this war as an emancipation from the grandfathered grievances and hardships of slavery, and its importance and stance on the physical vessel and its limits. Of course, the purpose of this war was a well-fought battle and well deserved, but we hardly think of the impact of wars on other countries in the grand scheme of things. Colonialism in this time period brought about animosities and conflict within all states across the nation (Kramer), but it is often forgotten that the main cash crop produced was exchanged for a profit—this cash crop, cotton. As it was mentioned in class, with India being such a major shareholder in the productivity and sales of cotton, the influx of cotton mills during this time caused a mass migration to occur to relatively isolated areas of the country. This migration resulted in India gaining some sort of financial independence. It was also a critical time for them because they were amongst a battle with the British Empire and gaining their freedom of independence, and now with the sales of cotton, meaning financial gains and influx in the population, they were now closer than they were before, to gain their independence from the British. I think it’s important to make the connection between country wars and its effects on other countries in the grand scheme of things because this is often overshadowed when history is taught.