Essays on Japanese Soldiers

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to show how the western media reported the Sino Japanese war and how China and Japan were portrayed. Several news reports portray the Chinese as being aggressive and violent individuals thus presenting the perception of the Chinese as being less victimized in the war. In contrast, the western media portrays the Japanese as being a rational and courteous group of people while their negative roles and atrocities in both world war II and Sino Japanese war have been overlooked. This paper will further identify the underlying reasons for ideological inclinations of wartime reporting. ...

Survival, Resilience, and Redemption” by Laura Hillenbrand

During the US Civil War, the Union’s famous Gen. Sherman once said that war is “all hell.” Many military commanders, as well as the countless victims of warfare, have echoed this sentiment down through the ages. Certainly, warfare reveals humanity to sometimes be far less than humane. The worst characteristics of human kind are often brought to the forefront by the nature of war and its relentless objectives. But as horrible as warfare can be for the average soldier in the trenches fighting next to his comrades, it can be (and often is) even more nightmarish and unimaginably ...

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

4. Describe at least two episodes, in detail, that indicate Sledge's attitude towards the enemy. As a personal account, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa recounts harrowing and vivid events experienced by Eugene B. Sledge and his United States (U.S.) Marine comrades during World War II as members of the First Marine Division. As an ordinary soldier, the author elaborates on the military campaigns fought by his division, K Company’s Third Battalion, Fifth Marine Regiment (K 3/5) at the Japanese islands of Peleliu and Okinawa. The memoir provides readers with the numerous and graphic horrors suffered ...

Casablanca: Plot

Directed by Curtiz Michael, Casablanca is an American film of 1942 that features romance and drama. It is a production of the Warner Brothers who base it on Burnett Murray and unproduced play Everybody Comes to Rick's of Alison Joan. The setting of Casablanca took place during the Second World War, which underlies the plot of the film. It focuses on an expatriate of the United States who has to sacrifice his relationship with a lady he loves for helping her husband – a leader of the Czech Resistance - escape from Casablanca. Getting out this Vichy-controlled town would help ...

Abstract

Shortly after WW2, Japan became a place where the Allies put on trial Japanese military criminals of different standing. Overall, the process looked methodical and well-though-out, with an ad hoc classification developed for determining the guilt of offenders. The post-war years witnessed the execution of generals and the punishment of soldiers following their brutal orders. However, several years later, a complex of factors like the deliberate destruction of evidence or the enormous number of cases halted the prosecution process expediting its termination. As unethical and immoral as it was, the USA had its reasons not to prosecute some of ...

The personal turmoil of a soldier fighting at the battlefronts during the Second World War of between 1939 and 1945 is evident in With the Old Breed by Eugene B. Sledge. In the book, Sledge describes his experiences as a United States Marine. Accordingly, while serving on a mortar faction, Sledge was part of the “Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, [and] 1st Marine Division” during the New Britain campaigns in Peleliu and Okinawa. In that sense, the first person account allows readers to delve into the realities of World War II through the confrontations between Allied forces ...