My book, The Reluctant Admiral, is a biography of Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander in Chief of the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The book talks about Yamamoto from the 1920's, and his visit to the United States and Europe as an ambassador, his time as the head of the aviation division of the Imperial Japanese Navy, his time as the representative on the preliminary talks of the Second London Naval Conference, his time as the navy vice minister, the time he spent as Commander in Chief during the war, on to his death on April 18th, 1943. The book spends most of its time covering the topic of WWII. World War II has influenced many things on today's world, such as warfare, the economy, what countries influence the world, and their allies. In the book, Yamamoto predicts that battleships will become obsolete, and the greatest asset of navies would be its air corps. This did end up happening. During WWII, the two major navies of the world, the Imperial Japanese Navy and the United States Navy, focused on building new aircraft and their carriers instead of building new and more powerful battleships. Even today, navies do not use battleships, they use aircraft carriers. Another example of how the Second World War affects the modern world is that because Japan was not able to defeat the United States, the US became one of the superpowers. Not only that, but when Japan declared its unconditional surrender on August of 1945, the United States and General Douglas MacArthur wrote the new constitution. One of the things that they put in the constitution, is that Japan has to renounce war, and that they are not to build weapons of war or have a military (they can still have a defence force though). Even now, the Japanese government is trying to repeal or at least change that article of their constitution.
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4/24/2018 08:38:42 am
I think that the United States should not have made Japan renounce their war because in the future other countries might do wrong things. Japan will not be able to stand up for not only itself but also the rest of the world. I think that the Japan government should repeal the last article in their Constitution. Also, I agree with you of the major affects that World War 2 had on the rest of the world. I also think that the United States was already going to become a super power regardless of Japan.
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Fernando Mora
4/27/2018 04:21:26 am
Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution says that cannot declare war on others, this does not mean that they cannot fight back when they are attacked by somebody else. While the constitutions states that Japan cannot have a military,the Japanese government have created a self defense force, and they are trying to rewrite the constitution so that this self defense force is legal. While the United States was going to become a superpower regardless, that their infrastructure and their people remained intact after the war ended, and their atomic bombs helped them become a superpower faster
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Yousif Saleh
4/25/2018 06:54:24 pm
you named a lot of interesting things related to the present effects of world War 2 but is there anymore that are specific
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Britt Kirby
4/27/2018 08:38:08 pm
If japan came to the united states' aid in wartime, do you think that the restrictions would be lifted without conflict, or would there be resistance?
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Fernando Mora
5/4/2018 01:48:21 pm
There are no 'restrictions' what prevents Japan from building an actual military is its own constitution (which was actually written by the Americans). As of now, Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution prevents Japan from building a tried and true military, though this has not stopped the Japanese government from building a 'self defense force', which is a military in every aspect but its name. I imagine that in the case of a war, if it is absolutely necessary, Japan would repeal the article in question. Even still, Article 9 does not prevent the Japanese from fighting back, or from providing aide to the UN.
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