Diplomatic relations with the Western powers grew worse‚ and on 7 December 1941‚ Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor. Japan almost simultaneously attacked all the major territories claimed by Western colonial powers‚ including American possessions such as Hawaii and the Philippines. The stated goal was to create a "Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere" in which Western imperialism would be banished. Scientists developed the atomic bomb in secrecy‚ and it was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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this book says that the Japanese are willing to accept foreign cultures and Japan has developed it’s economy with using technologies and systems that are imported from foreign countries. However‚ the Japanese have also excluded foreigners or foreign cultures. In Edo era‚ Tokugawa government forbade trading with almost all the countries. In one sense‚ that helped Japan improve it’s unique culture‚ such as kabuki‚ ennichi‚ and so on. The Japanese can enjoy it’s specific culture now for not having interact
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Economy of Japan The development of Japan’s economy has started in the Meiji era. The rulers of that age wanted to create a capitalist market economy from the example of America and Britain. Japanese people travelled to abroad to learn while instructors came from the West to Japan to teach. The majority of today’s enterprises have established at that time. Japan has become the most developed country in Asia. Japan had the second largest economy till 2010 but China has overtaken Japan as the world’s
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understand that an individual ’s perspective of death and dying is greatly impacted by their culture. In this paper I will discuss how the Japanese culture approaches death and dying. I will also discuss the unique concept of organ transplantation that surrounds that Japanese culture. This paper presents the law of organ transplantation in Japan‚ which allows people to decide whether brain death can be used to determine their death in agreement with their family. Japan could become a unique example
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Christianity began to make its presence known in Japan towards the end of the Muromachi era. It was the Portuguese who first led the European maritime explorations during the fifteenth century down the Cape of Good Hope and touched India in 1498. Fifteen years later‚ they reached China‚ where they created a permanent trading station in Macao in 1559 (Varley 143). Portuguese traders first set foot on Japanese soil around 1543; they landed on the small island of Tanegashima off of the coast of Kyushu
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to religion. From China and Korea came Buddhism‚ which to Japan brought not only new religion‚ but also new culture. Buddhist ideas‚ such as karma‚ impermanence‚ and simplicity were extremely influential in forming the contents and aesthetic ideals of Japanese poetry and art in general. Buddhist art‚ paintings and sculpture‚ as well as its architecture helped shape Japanese arts and architecture in general. However‚ Japanese culture is unique from that of China’s and Korea’s. This comes in part
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He was emperor of Japan from 1867 to 1912 and during his reign Japan was transformed to a more westernized culture. This character is accurately depicted. Captain Omura the right hand man of the emperor‚ is also accurately depicted in helping the emperor make decisions and sometimes even becoming the decision maker. Harold Bolitho‚ a professor of Japanese history at Harvard University in Cambridge‚ Massachusetts‚ said "It’s a country that tries to modernize itself in a hurry‚" "It wants to get rid
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TRADITIONAL JAPANESE ARTS Ceramics One of the country’s oldest art forms. In the Neolithic period‚ the earliest soft earthenware was made. Famous artist-potters Honami Koetsu‚ Ogata Kenzan‚ and Aoki Mokubei. Lacquer Ware is a broad category of fine and decorative arts. lacquer has been used in paintings‚ prints‚ and on a wide variety of objects from Buddha statues to bento boxes for food. Doll are known by the name ningyō (人形?) in Japan‚ which literally means human shape. Hinamatsuri
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Zen’s Influence on the Art of the Sword Zen has long had a great influence upon Japanese culture. Many aspects of this culture are touched upon by Zen including art‚ literature‚ and specific ceremonies such as the one concerning tea. During the Kamakura period of Japan‚ another area of culture began to be affected by Zen; the martial arts of the samurai class. Somewhere along the line‚ the samurai realized the ease with which the monks of Zen Buddhism dealt with issues such
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Processing Re-write Suggestions Done (Unique Article) The samurai (or bushi) were the soldiers of premodern Japan. They later created up the ruling military category that eventually became the best ranking social caste of the Edo amount (1603-1867). Samurai used a variety of weapons like bows and arrows‚ spears and guns‚ however their main weapon and image was the arm. Samurai were imagined to lead their lives in step with the ethic code of code ("the method of the warrior"). powerfully Confucian
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