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Nagasaki vs. Detroit
The purpose of this thread is to allow the discussion of two cities of major cultural, social, industrial, historical and economic importance to their respective countries and to objectively look at the impact of a largely racially united country vs. a multi-cultural one and the impact of those separate societies on their respective cities in the modern era.
NAGASAKI
During World War 2 Nagasaki was a major industrial center and one of the largest sea ports in Japan. Nagasaki was founded by the Portuguese in the second half of the 16th century on the site of small fishing village. It was a center of Portuguese and other European peoples through the 19th century and was a leading center of Christianity in Japan, and in particular Roman Catholicism.
In the modern era, when Japan opened up to foreign trade and diplomatic relations, Nagasaki began modernizing in 1868. It's main industry was ship building with the major player being Mitsubishi Heavy Industries which in time became one of the prime contractors for the Imperial Japanese Navy.
On August 9, 1945 Nagasaki was devastated when it was the target of the United States' second atomic attack in the closing stages of World War 2. According to statistics found within Nagasaki Peace Park, the death toll from the atomic bombing totaled 73,884, including 2,000 Korean forced workersand eight POWs, as well as another 74,909 injured, and another several hundred thousand diseased and dying due to fallout and other illness caused by radiation.
In the years after the war, Nagasaki was slowly rebuilt. New Churches were built with a renewed and increasing presence of Christianity. It reclaimed it's historical place as a major sea port and industrial center with a rich ship building industry and setting a strong example of perseverance and peace.
DETROIT
Detroit was founded on July 24, 1701, by the French explorer and adventurer Antoine Laumet de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac. In time, it became the most populous and important city in Michigan and emerged as a metropolitan powerhouse with the construction of an extensive freeway system in the 1950s and 1960s.
It was known at one time as the world's traditional automotive center.
Sadly, since the boom of the industrial automotive period, Detroit has undergone what can only be described as a horrific decline. It's peak population of the 1950s was estimated at 1.8 million people to just over 700,000 today according the the 2010 consensus.
In the United States, only St. Louis, Missouri and Youngstown, Ohio have seen declines of over 60% or more during the same time period.
During the African-American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, Detroit witnessed growing confrontations between inner city black youths and police forces which resulted in the tragic Twelfth Street Riot
in July 1967.
Michigan governor George Romney ordered the Michigan National Guard in and President Johnson sent in US Army troops. The result was 43 dead, 467 injured, over 7,200 arrests and over 2,000 buildings destroyed.
From Wiki:
On August 18, 1970, the NAACP filed suit against Michigan state officials, including Governor William Milliken. The original trial began on April 6, 1971, and lasted for 41 days. The NAACP argued that although schools were not officially segregated (white only), the city of Detroit and its surrounding counties had enacted policies to maintain racial segregation in schools. The NAACP also suggested a direct relationship between unfair housing practices (such as redlining) and educational segregation.[34]
District Judge Steven J. Roth held all levels of government accountable for the segregation. The Sixth Circuit Court affirmed some of the decision, withholding judgment on the relationship of housing inequality with education. The Court specified that it was the state's responsibility to integrate across the segregated metropolitan area.[35]
The Governor and other accused officials appealed to the Supreme Court, which took up the case on February 27, 1974.[34] The subsequent Milliken v. Bradley decision would come to have enormous national impact. According to Gary Orfield and Susan E. Eaton in their 1996 book Dismantling Desegregation, the “Supreme Court’s failure to examine the housing underpinnings of metropolitan segregation” in Milliken made desegregation “almost impossible” in northern metropolitan areas. “Suburbs were protected from desegregation by the courts ignoring the origin of their racially segregated housing patterns.” “Milliken was perhaps the greatest missed opportunity of that period,” said Myron Orfield, professor of law and director of the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity at the University of Minnesota, “Had that gone the other way, it would have opened the door to fixing nearly all of Detroit’s current problems.” John Mogk, a professor of law and an expert in urban planning at Wayne State University in Detroit says “Everybody thinks that it was the riots [in 1967] that caused the white families to leave. Some people were leaving at that time but, really, it was after Milliken that you saw mass flight to the suburbs. If the case had gone the other way, it is likely that Detroit would not have experienced the steep decline in its tax base that has occurred since then."[36]
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