Tokugawa Ieyasu inaugurated an era of peace, stability and prosperity for Japan in the beginning of the 17th century. It also isolated the Japanese islands from foreign influences. It established the shogunate in Edo, today´s Tokio. Tokugawa became the shogun, or military commander-in-chief, and held real political power. The emperor remained in Kyoto and held mainly symbolic power.
<span>The
economist Julian Simon bet in 1980 that the prices of five free traded
commodities would decline in ten years. In 1990 Simon won this bet against
the neo-Malthusian Paul Ehrlich.</span>
President Truman did not make the right choice regarding the atomic bomb droppings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ... Truman had the right to use the bombs but only after he gave the Japanese a chance at surrender and even then he should have only used one in the most extreme case.
