And I can point to a historical precedent: WWII, or, as the Japanese say, the Pacific War.
Artists, hardened on the frontlines of the Pacific war, brought a considerable degree of realism to their drawing.
Japan has been planning its policy of a third opening of Japan after the Meiji Restoration and the era right after the Pacific war.
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Previously, Mr Dower mapped the political topography of Japan in the years leading up to, during and after the Pacific war through the eyes of Shigeru Yoshida, who became prime minister during the allied occupation.
Emptied of all aspirations and ideology, the Japanese spent the next seven years (the allied occupation lasted almost twice as long as the Pacific war itself) having their minds filled with a wholly new vision and set of dreams.
My classmates and I, being the youngest of the young, remained uniformed college students for the longest period, while those who were only a year or so older went off for officer training and preceded us into those terrifying island battles which marked the last stages of the Pacific war.
Douglas MacArthur's intelligence staff in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
In 1942, the Battle of Midway, the turning point in the sea war in the Pacific, began.
McCain and was commander of the Pacific Theater during the Vietnam War, when Jack's father, now Arizona Sen.
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Many returned home after the war in Europe ended, though the war in the Pacific was still raging.
Mr Morales was speaking on Bolivia's "Day of the Sea", when it commemorates its defeat by Chile in the 19th Century War of the Pacific.
In the 1879-84 War of the Pacific, Chile won control of mineral-rich land once held by Peru and Bolivia, and the outcome left Bolivia landlocked.
The borders between the two neighbours date back to the 1904 Treaty of Peace and Friendship, signed after Bolivia lost 400km (250 miles) of coastline to Chile during the War of the Pacific (1879-1884).
Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in the Philippines is the largest of the overseas cemeteries, with more than 17, 000 Americans, marking World War II's Pacific Theatre.
Spread spectrum was first used by the allies in the Pacific campaigns of the second world war, where it foiled Japanese attempts to jam radio-controlled torpedoes.
The perilous battle that was fought during World War II in the Pacific at Iwo Jima was a battle against all odds, and yet this picture immortalizes the victory of young GIs over the incursion against the Japanese.
Japanese soldiers were found living on Pacific Islands a full decade after World War 2 ended.
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Now, by going to war against Spain in the Pacific and the Caribbean, and by establishing what it thought of as a stepping-stone to the China market, the United States had abandoned its own splendid isolation and thrown itself into the worldwide struggle.
Navy ships visit, Air Force jets fly overhead and war games are played off the Pacific island's shores.
Bolivia also peacefully disputes access to the Pacific Ocean since losing its coast after a war with Chile in the 19th Century.
The economic miracle that began here in Japan after the Second World War has now swept across the Pacific and throughout the wider region.
Watson climbed down to Wreck Beach, where there were two abandoned gun towers, built during the Second World War to protect Canada from a Pacific invasion.
Bolivia has said it will take Chile to international courts to try to recover access to the Pacific Ocean, which it lost in a war 132 years ago.
He had served in the navy in the second world war, and saw action in the Pacific.
Teddy and Yvette are devout young Catholics who marry during the second world war, before Teddy ships out for the south Pacific.
He talked about his long ties to the region, including his father's service in World War II flying B-25 bombers in the South Pacific, and his own service in Vietnam with his brother.
And that could head off a destructive trade war and be the catalyst for considerably more trans-Pacific cooperation resolving issues that adversely affect consumers, producers, workers and investors in both countries, and beyond.
The group stages saw a resumption of the old Calcutta Cup rivalry between England and the Scots, a South Pacific stand-off between Fiji and Samoa and even a Cold War heritage fixture between USA and Russia.
During World War II, Nixon served as a Navy lieutenant commander in the Pacific.
World War II naval buffs tend to love the big, flashy battles in the Pacific and who can blame them?
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