일본과 셰계

일본과 셰계
Japan and the World   Ties That Bind In 1854, U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry used the threat of force to convince Japanese officials to sign a treaty which effectively ended the long running regime of sakoku, or isolation, that Japan's shoguns had established throughout most of the country for some 200 years. Fog of War An emboldened, modernizing Japan marks its preeminence in Asia in 1895 by battering the armies of China's Qing dynasty in Korea and Manchuria. Taiwan becomes Japan's first colonial possession. Russians Stop Here A decade later, Japan resoundingly overthrew Russia's interests in the Far East, crushing the "Occidental" power in a war that catapulted the island nation onto the world stage. As the City Burns The people of Shanghai watch smoke rise as Japanese shells rain down over their homes in November 1937. Japan's invasion of China had already begun and the coastal cosmopolis would soon fall; Japan turned its expansionist gaze to other corners of Asia as well. Bully's Turf Tank commanders stop for a break as the Japanese war machine advances into Siberia and Mongolia in July 1939. Ground Zero A mushroom cloud rises 20,000 feet after the U.S. drops its second atomic bomb on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. The nuclear drops kill over 200,000 people and Japan surrenders its fight in the Second World War soon thereafter, its catastrophic imperial ambitions ended. A New Day A couple walks on a crowded Tokyo street in 1955. After the war, Japan agreed not to keep its own military as it slowly rebuilt its shattered reputation. Victory Lap A decade of economic revitalization sees Tokyo host the Summer Olympics in 1964 and a new, peaceful Japan announces itself to the world with wonders like the shinkansen, its network of high-speed, bullet trains. Attack of the Clones Cars awaiting shipment line Yokohama's docks as Japan's auto industry soars. By 1980, Japan rivals the U.S. in automobile production. Angry Men Traders panic during a currency crisis in 1995. After a spectacular boom in the 1980s, an assets price bubble burst in 1990 and the world's second-largest economy slumped into a financial funk that would be dubbed the "Lost Decade." The Maverick Charismatic, brash Junichiro Koizumi is elected Prime Minister in 2001 ? his six years in power are generally seen as having revitalized Japan, though his frequent visits to the Yasukuni shrine honoring Japan's war dead prompted mass protests in China and Korea. The Light Brigade In 2004, Japan deployed around 1,000 personnel of the nation's Self-Defense Forces in US-occupied Iraq, its first military engagement overseas since the Second World War. A Friend in Need Spreading its largesse to allies in Asia, Japan's PM Taro Aso grandstands with India's Manmohan Singh after offering New Delhi a record $4.5 billion in loans. 타임지 제공(2008.12.3)