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12/07/2016

Topic Reading-Vol.1701-12/7/2016

Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Pearl Harbor Attack, December 7th 1941
On this day three-quarter century ago, the U.S. military base in Pearl Harbor in Hawaii was attacked by hundreds of Japanese war planes. As many as 2,000 US service men were killed and many others were wounded. It was the beginning of the Pacific Theater of World War II which changed the political and geographical map of Asia.
(December 8th in Japan time because of the International Date Line)
45 months after the attack, the US dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to cease the war as well as to show off the might.
Despite these hostilities, the two countries have been close allies ever since the war ended. Seventy years from the attack, a US aircraft carrier was sent to off the coast of Fukushima and Miyagi to help the earthquake devastated and radiation threatened areas by the major earthquake and tsunami deal with the crisis and recover from the damages. This support operation was called “Operation Tomodachi (friendship).”
Enjoy reading and thinking of the hostility and alliance between countries.

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