Ieyasu's Impact On Japan

“Little boy” and “Fat man”. These were the names of the two devastating atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. One, a gun-assembly fission bomb where “a mass of Uranium-235 is fired down a gun barrel toward another mass of Uranium-235”. The other, an Implosion fission bomb where “a sphere of Plutonium-239 is surrounded by high explosives that compress the plutonium”. Both bombs had a TNT equivalent of over 15,000 tons, and the sheer force of both explosions was equal to the load of nearly 200 B-29 bombers. Everyone has heard of these famous bombings. Yet some people still try to justify them. Although the U.S. was only retaliating from the Pearl Harbor attacks, the use of an atomic weapon on Japan is not justifiable. Japan was
The Tokugawa, which was the last of Japan’s Shogun brought peace to the Japanese people. From 1603 to 1867, the period known as the Tokugawa or Edo period, the Shogun helped the nation flourish in their economic growth, as well as their political stability. Ieyasu was praised in his time for his achievements. He was able to achieve dominance over the entire country, and unify them by balancing the power held in in the country. Ieyasu was able to accomplish this by smartly distributing power amongst his allies and his enemies giving him power over the whole of
This emperor took that name of “Meiji” meaning “enlightened rule, and the overthrow of the the Shogun was known as the “Meiji Restoration”. “Before the Meiji restoration, the emperor wielded no political power and was viewed simply as a symbol of Japanese culture. ” Under the Meiji emperor, Shinto was reinstated as Japan’s national religion over Buddhism since Buddhism had been founded in India and was seen as foreign. Within the Shinto religion, it is believed that the emperor is descended from the gods who created Japan, which in the eyes of the citizens, made him divine. To westerner’s this divinity is compared to that of a shadowy pope, but to the Japanese, it gave them the patriotic fuel to love and do anything for the government, especially the emperor. Infact “the Emperor was seen as so divine that people were not allowed to look at him or even speak his name. He embodied their nation and religion”. “It is sometimes difficult to comprehend the extreme sacrifices made by Japan in the name of the emperor. This can be best viewed, however, as extreme patriotism- Japanese were taught to give their lives, if necessary for their