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SHARED ASSUMPTIONS AMONG LEADERS IN 1930S CHINA AND JAPAN ABOUT HOW TO MEET NATIONAL CHALLENGES:

1. Military power was the prime tool for conflict resolution

2. Territorial acquisition was an asset

3. International alliances were both a tool and a liability

4. Rural poverty was a threat to stability

5. Social diversity was to be welcomed

1. YES

2. YES

3. YES

4. YES

5. NO

WHAT WAS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MANCHURIA FOR IMPERIAL JAPAN IN THE 1930S?

1. Manchuria jumpstarted the economy and pulled Japan out of depression

2. Manchuria was a workshop for democracy

3. Mass migration to Mancuria alleviated social distress

4. Propaganda machine was Manchuria to advertise the nature of the Japanese empire through tourism, etc.

1. YES

2. NO

3. YES

4. YES

WHAT ARE SOME COMMON EXPERIENCES HIBASKUSHA REPORT FROM HAVING LIVED THROUGH ATOMIC BOMBINGS?

1. Big plane appeared without warning

2. Blinding flash (pika), then a crash (don) as everything around them collapsed and burst into flames

3. Skin melted off of people’s limbs, etc.

4. Black rain fell in the following days that killed people

5. Pattern of clothes were burnt into people’s skin

6. Some vanished without a trace

7. Government organized medical relief

1. YES

2. YES

3. YES

4. YES

5. YES

6. YES

7. NO

WHAT HAPPENED IN THE RUINS OF JAPAN’S EMPIRE?

CIVIL WAR IN CHINA

1. India became independent

2. Military occupations of Japan and Koreas

3. International trustees system of islands put in place by the United Nations

4. War crimes trials of the Japanese were conducted across Asia

1. NOT IN THIS CONTEXT

2. YES

3. YES

4. YES

HOW WAS 1968 A GLOBAL PHENOMENON OF SOCIOCULTURAL PROTEST, EVEN REVOLUTION?

1. It may be seen as a “bottom-up” wrestling with how each postwar system had fallen short of delivering what it had promised

2. Demands of liberation from conventions and capitalist inequalities

3. Protest against government complicity in war and imperialism

4. Incomplete communist revolution in China

5. It signaled an important generation change as the first post-war generation came of age

1. YES

2. YES

3. YES (?)

4. YES

5. YES

WHAT WAS THE ASIAN VALUES DEBATE ABOUT?

1. Embrace of Asians as homogeneous, harmonious, and family-centered

2. The discourse about Japaneseness

3. The Asia that can say NO

4. Conservatives in various Asian countries pushing back against the universalism of Western human rights

5. A way to explain the Asian “economic miracles” embraced by some Asian leaders as well as Western public media

1. NO

2. NO

3. NO

4. YES (?)

5. YES

WHAT IS THE JAPANESE TOWN OF MINAMATA KNOWN FOR?

1. Criminal negligence by Chisso company in disposing of waste water

2. Dancing cats (ate mercury and went crazy; affected their nervous systems and could not control function of the body)

3. Mercury poising from contaiminated fish

4. Air pollution

5. CO2 poisoning

6. Local national protest

7. Pushed the Japanese government into environmental protection laws

1. YES

2. YES

3. YESS

4. NO

5. NO

6. YES

7. YES