American Soldiers and Okinawan Women

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Etsuko Takushi Crissey
Keyword(s):  
Vietnam War ◽  
Biracial Children ◽  
Civilian Leaders ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Intimate Relations ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Right ◽  
First Time ◽  
The U.S

In September, 1945, with most Okinawans still in refugee camps, the U.S. military ordered elections for civilian leaders in which women were granted the right to vote for the first time, seven months earlier than in mainland Japan. Yet they were far more concerned about the many rapes committed by American soldiers. Women and girls were abducted from fields while searching for food, dragged away from their homes, and assaulted in front of their families. After months of inaction, the U.S. military decided to set up “special amusement areas” for prostitution in certain towns. Some Okinawans favoured this policy as a “breakwater” to protect women and children of “good” families, while others opposed it as exploitation of women. In 1967, at the peak of the Vietnam War, an estimated 10,000 women engaged in prostitution. In 1948 the U.S. military rescinded a ban on marriages between U.S. soldiers and Okinawan women that failed to prevent couples from having intimate relations and living together. Still, commanding officers pressured soldiers not to marry, threatening disciplinary transfers. By 1967, among thousands of biracial children in Okinawa, about half were raised by mothers or their relatives with little or no financial support from fathers.

SUING YOUR PARENTS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 92 (4) ◽  
pp. A78-A78
Author(s):  
B. H.
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
Legal Action ◽  
Lake County ◽  
The Right ◽  
First Time ◽  
The U.S

In a court battle beginning today, a judge will be asked for what is believed to be the first time to determine whether children have the right to take legal action on their own behalf. At the heart of the dispute in a Lake County, Fla., courtroom is a small, bespectacled boy who claims his childhood has been destroyed and who is doing battle with two formidable adversaries: his parents and the U.S. legal system. Gregory K., age 11, (his name is being withheld by the court) has taken the unprecedented step of filing a petition to divorce himself from his parents ... Judge C. Richard Singeltary is being asked to decide whether Gregory has the right to divorce his parents. The court is also being asked to allow Gregory's foster parents—with whom the boy has been living for nine month—to adopt him.

scholarly journals Gugatan Class Action dalam Hukum Perlindungan Konsumen

to-ra ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Wiwik Sri Widiarty
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Protection ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Class Action ◽  
Judicial Process ◽  
Consumer Protection Act ◽  
Civil Lawsuit ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Right ◽  
First Time

Abstract   First time of the many cases that harm the interests of consumers as well as to the need for information and the development of knowledge in the field of law today is known as the class action, the Government, and Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat give attention to consumers in Indonesia. Provisions governing Class Action contained in Law No. 32 Year 2009 on Protection And Environmental Management, and Law No. 8 of 1999 on Consumer Protection, and also law PERMA No.1 Year 2002 on Proces Class Action. In order to demand justice for the consumer losses caused by the business, the consumer has the right to demand their rights as set out in the Consumer Protection Act, that the dispute mechanism can be chosen voluntarily by the parties to the dispute, namely through the courts or out of court. The class action suit is a civil lawsuit filed by a group of people who have an interest in a similar problem, either one or more of their members to sue or be sued as representative of the group without any members of the group are involved directly in the judicial process. In connection with this there is the benefit of a class action lawsuit in consumer disputes in court, but to fight for their rights, the principle litigants with simple, fast, and low cost, and the determinants that be a reason to be eligible class action, both in practice as well as in its implementation.   Kata Kunci: Gugatan Class Action

The Educational Activities of Fray Alonso de la Vera Cruz in Sixteenth Century Mexico

1948 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-47
Author(s):  
John F. Blethen
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Ghost Town ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Right ◽  
General Appearance

The Little Pueblo of Tiripetío lies at the foot of a mountain near Morelia in the state of Michoacán. Its Indian name means “place of gold”, but the adobe houses with their straw roofs plus a general appearance of shabbiness belie such a title. Tiripetío, however, was not always a ghost town. In the sixteenth century it pulsed with life and activity. The life of the place centered about a convent of Augustinian friars, with its adjoining church, hospital and school. The name Vera Cruz is closely linked with this convent and school as with many other educational activities in sixteenth century Mexico. But like Tiripetío itself, which marked the scene of his early labours, the name of Alonso de la Vera Cruz has fallen into obscurity and today counts little, even with historians of his own Order. The recent work of Oswaldo Robles, a translation of one of Vera Cruz’s philosophic treatises, the Physica Speculano, (vd. The Americas, October 1944, under article: “Fray Alonso de la Vera Cruz and the Beginnings of Philosophic Speculation in the Americas”.) is truly a step in the right direction. It can only be hoped that the relatively settled political set-up in Mexico will open the way for a more thorough search for historical data on outstanding figures like Alonso de la Vera Cruz. The present article attempts, from the sources now at hand, to synthesize the many and varied activities in the field of education in which Vera Cruz engaged and to give an interpretation of the influence he exerted in the field of learning and in the development of the philosophic thought of his day in Mexico.

The Obama Administration and Latin America: A "New Partnership for the Americas"

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1850189
Author(s):  
Raul Moncarz
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
President Obama ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Obama Administration ◽  
Fidel Castro ◽  
Spheres Of Influence ◽  
The Right ◽  
First Time ◽  
The U.S

Every new U.S. administration brings renewed hope and vigor to the World regarding unrealized dreams and aspirations as well as unfinished and not realized agendas. The U.S. has not neglected Latin America, even according to some the region has probably benefited from U.S. involvement in the Middle East and Afghanistan. A New Partnership for the Americas is the name that the Obama group used during the election campaign. The common thread is a preference to develop cooperation through converging national interests as articulated by the U.S. and Latin American Caribbean governments. The U.S. and Cuban government officials are talking for the first time in years raising hopes for a thaw in long-icy relations. President Obama has granted Cuban-Americans the right to travel freely to Cuba and to send remittances there, and to give U.S. telecommunications companies the right to pursue business there represents a first step in trying for better relations. If the new Obama administration thought that a change in the rhetoric and tone would make the likes of Castro, Chavez and others see things the U.S. way, a new lesson was learned in that sometimes countries disagree simply because their goals are mutually exclusive. A year after Barack Obama became U.S. president, pledging "a new beginning" in relations with Cuba and wining praise from Fidel Castro, bitter rhetoric is once more flying between the two states. At the outset it has to be recognized that the U.S. government actually understands what is happening in Latin America. The U.S. policy is highly sophisticated and often seems more drastic on its understanding of what is happening than some or most of its critics. Looking at some people's history of the hemisphere it is remarkable and transformative that for the first time in many years, the U.S. does not seem to care much what happens in Latin America. In an interconnected world, power does not need to be a zero sum game, and nations need not fear the success of another. Cultivating spheres of cooperation--not competing spheres of influence--will lead to progress in the Caribbean and Latin America. Engagement meaning expanded cooperation with and the need to broaden policy efforts with the group of leftists rules countries such as Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Peru and Venezuela beyond the previous administration focus on regional economic integration through competitive liberalization.

scholarly journals Makefiles for Moses

2013 ◽  
Vol 100 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-18
Author(s):  
Ulrich Germann
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Evaluation Data ◽  
Processing Pipeline ◽  
Web Integration ◽  
Simple Set ◽  
Experiment Management ◽  
New Processing ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Right ◽  
First Time

Abstract Building MT systems with the Moses toolkit is a task so complex that it is rarely done manually. Over the years, several frameworks for building, running, and evaluating Moses systems have been developed, most notably the Experiment Management System (EMS). While EMS works well for standard experimental set-ups and offers good web integration, designing new experimental set-ups within EMS is not trivial, especially when the new processing pipeline differs considerably from the kind EMS is intended for. In this paper, I present M4M (Makefiles for Moses), a framework for building and evaluating Moses MT systems with the GNU Make utility. I illustrate the capabilities by a simple set-up that builds and compares two different systems with common resources. This set-up requires little more than putting training, tuning and evaluation data into the right directories and running Make.1 The purpose of this paper is twofold: to guide first-time users of Moses through the process of building baseline MT systems, and to discuss some lesser-known features of the Make utility that enable the MT practitioner to set up complex experimental scenarios efficiently. M4M is part of the Moses distribution.

Carrying Guns in Public: Legal and Public Health Implications

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. 84-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon S. Vernick
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
District Of Columbia ◽  
Appellate Court ◽  
Second Amendment ◽  
The People ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Right ◽  
First Time ◽  
State Militias ◽  
The U.S

The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Until recently, no federal appellate court had ever struck down any gun law as a violation of the Second Amendment. In fact, even laws outlawing most handgun possession, or restricting other types of firearms, had been upheld, in part, because the laws did not interfere with the functioning of state militias.Then, in 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court — for the first time in nearly 70 years — decided a case squarely addressing the meaning of the Second Amendment. In District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court concluded that the Second Amendment protected an individual right to own handguns in the home, invalidating a Washington, D.C. law.But Heller left many issues undecided, including the precise scope of the Second Amendment.

From the Other Shore: Russian Comment on Diaghilev's Ballets Russes

2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley J. Rabinowitz
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
English Translation ◽  
The Other ◽  
World War ◽  
The West ◽  
Ballets Russes ◽  
Critical Responses ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Right ◽  
First Time

Among the many and varied critical responses to Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, two Russian voices have not been heard in the West – Akim Volynskii's (on the right) and Anatolii Lunacharskii's (on the left). The former, Petersburg-based ballet critic from 1911 to 1925, followed the Russian Seasons with anxious dismay as so many stars of the Mariinskii Theatre departed for Paris; the latter, Soviet Russia's Commissar for Enlightenment between 1917 and 1929, witnessed Diaghilev's enterprise first-hand – both before World War I and after – and wrote about it with a mixture of admiration and class-conscious disapproval. These critics’ observations are offered in English translation for the first time.

Why Do German and U.S. Reactions to the Financial Crisis Differ?

2011 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 68-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Silvia
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Euro Crisis ◽  
Jimmy Carter ◽  
The Many ◽  
First Time ◽  
The U.S

Among the many striking developments that arose out of the 2008-2009financial crisis and the subsequent EURO crisis has been the policy divergencebetween the United States and Germany. Typically, the two countrieshave broadly similar preferences regarding economic policy. To besure, this is not the first time that Germany and the U.S. have failed to seeeye to eye on economic matters,1 but the recent gap in perception andpolicy does warrant attention because it has been unusually large. Unlikethe famous quarrels between Jimmy Carter and Helmut Schmidt in the1970s,2 personality does not seem to play a role in this case. What thendoes explain the gulf?

Applying the Household-Centered Environmental Sanitation planning approach: a case study from Nepal

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mingma Gyalzen Sherpa ◽  
Christoph Lüthi ◽  
Thammarat Koottatep
Keyword(s):  
Urban Setting ◽  
Community Interactions ◽  
Environmental Sanitation ◽  
Planning Approach ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Participation Process ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Multi Stakeholder ◽  
The Right ◽  
First Time

The Household-Centered Environmental Sanitation (HCES) planning approach was tested for the first time in Nepal in a peri-urban setting during 2009/2011, in order to validate the novel planning approach, identify challenges and improve the process. The participatory multi-stakeholder process involved household mapping and surveys, user needs identification and prioritization and a stakeholder assessment. Following an expert's assessment of potential sanitation options, community sensitization campaigns through exposure visits, a sanitation bazaar and focused community interactions were conducted. Among the three sanitation alternatives, users showed strong preference to set up a simplified sewerage system with a decentralized wastewater treatment. The paper critically discusses the key challenges faced when developing environmental sanitation plans. Setting the right balance between empowering people to take informed decisions and keeping the participation process intact until the final stage was a major challenge. Although participatory planning is time consuming, it is worth investing as it builds local ownership and assists in informed decision-making processes for selecting affordable sanitation options that best meet user's needs.

Unrivalled Influence

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Herrin
Keyword(s):  
Political Life ◽  
General Introduction ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Mothers And Daughters ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Long Span ◽  
Imperial Court ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Many ◽  
First Time

This book explores the exceptional roles that women played in the vibrant cultural and political life of medieval Byzantium. This book evokes the complex and exotic world of Byzantium's women, from empresses and saints to uneducated rural widows. Drawing on a diverse range of sources, the book sheds light on the importance of marriage in imperial statecraft, the tense coexistence of empresses in the imperial court, and the critical relationships of mothers and daughters. It looks at women's interactions with eunuchs, the in-between gender in Byzantine society, and shows how women defended their rights to hold land. The book describes how women controlled their inheritances, participated in urban crowds demanding the dismissal of corrupt officials, followed the processions of holy icons and relics, and marked religious feasts with liturgical celebrations, market activity, and holiday pleasures. The vivid portraits that emerge here reveal how women exerted an unrivalled influence on the patriarchal society of Byzantium, and remained active participants in the many changes that occurred throughout the empire's millennial history. The book brings together the author's finest essays on women and gender written throughout the long span of her career. This volume includes three new essays published here for the very first time and a new general introduction. It also provides a concise introduction to each essay that describes how it came to be written and how it fits into her broader views about women and Byzantium.

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