After the surrender of the Confederate Army, Lincoln is extremely conciliatory to the South. The reason why he does this is because he wants the Confederate States to rejoin the United States in a way that will help the country move forward peacefully.
With this in mind, Lincoln introduces the 10% plan. Only 10% of citizens within a particular state had to vote in agreement to join the United States again. The only condition of rejoining the US that the citizens had to agree to was the promise to never secede from the US again. This plan made it easy for the Southern states to rejoin.
Using the United States and Japan as an example, one prominent similarity would be that both countries practice the economic system of capitalism, while a major difference would be that the United States is a heavy exporter while Japan in a heavy importer.
The article that published in the Los Angeles Time by Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Daniel Huff is the Fighting Islamic Extremists Who Stifle Free Speech, it addresses the controversial issue, raging globally and especially after a warring divisible elections period - Islamic extremism and free speech. Islamic extremists are increasingly using intimidation to stifle the free expression.
