China and Japan are two of the world’s most populous countries. China‚ which is the largest in population‚ holds about 20% of the world’s population within 7% of the world’s land. Japan is the tenth most populous country in the world. In 2010‚ its population was about 127 million in a land area comparable to Italy. The Korean peninsula shares borders with China and Russia and is closest to the Japanese islands.¹ Unlike Japan‚ Korean is abundant with natural resources. South Korea is the 25th most
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of new generation. Being regarded as one of the great founders of modern Japan from the nineteenth century‚ Fukuzawa Yukichi was a Japanese author‚ teacher‚ a translator of Western thoughts and customs‚ and broke the restrictive bonds of the Tokugawa samurai system. He was the founder of Keio-Gijuku University. Fukuzawa was an early Japanese civil rights activist. His thoughts about government and social institutions made a
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Figures who wear black-clads‚ cover their faces‚ move over the walls like spiders‚ flew through the sky like Superman‚ and run fast as cheetahs. This is a mistaken image of the Ninjas given by movies and comic books. The real Ninjas or Shinobi was originally descended from a demon which was half man and half crow. In Japan they called a person who uses Ninjutsu a ‘ninja’ .Ninjutsu is an independent art of warfare that evolved mainly in the lands of Iga in Mie Prefecture‚ and Koka in Shiga Prefecture
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The Meiji Restoration brought enormous changes in Japan’s structure. It eliminated the Tokugawa Shogunate‚ which allowed the emperor to regain full power‚ and transformed Japan from a feudal system to a modern state. The new era established the Meiji Constitution‚ which created a new structure for the government and laws‚ reformed the military and education system‚ experienced westernization and was the catalyst towards industrialization. However‚ it cannot be completely considered as a revolution
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traditional and social hierarchies in both societies. In Russia‚ the aristocracy was threatened by the abolition of serfdom‚ the creation of regional zemstvoes‚ and reforms of the army. In Japan‚ the samurai were almost destroyed by the fall of the shogunate‚ the destruction of feudalism‚ and military reform. Both nations used territorial expansion as a means of mollifying the aristocracy and building support for the imperial government. 2. A move to industrialization was part of the process of change
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antagonistic‚ both culturally and religiously—sought to undermine the Dutch by using their preexisting trade alliances with Japan to sully their name. However‚ the Dutch were able to convince the Shogunate that both Portugal and Spain only had self-serving and colonial interests in Japan. To the Tokugawa Shogunate‚ the presence and the heavily Christianizing elements of the first two foreign powers represented a threat to the daimyo who saw it as weakening his power and leading to a revolt among other
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“Japanese nationalism is often characterised as intimately connected with the tennô (the monarch‚ “the emperor”)”. This is possibly due to the Emperor Meiji being a symbol of Japan’s modernisation and the end of the oppressive‚ 200 years long Tokugawa shogunate and establishing a slightly more
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Restoration Meiji Restoration‚ in Japanese history‚ the political revolution that brought about the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate and returned control of the country to direct imperial rule under the emperor Meiji‚ beginning an era of major political‚ economic‚ and social change known as the Meiji period. This revolution brought about the modernization and Westernization of Japan. In 1868 the Tokugawa shôgun great general‚ who ruled Japan in the feudal period‚ lost his power and the emperor was restored
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parts‚ the eras are as following: Ancient Japan (-300 to 538)‚ Classical Japan (538-1185)‚ Feudal Japan (1185-1868)‚ the Tokugawa Period (1603-1868)‚ the Empire of Japan (1868-1945) and finally Post War Japan (1945-present). I will be focusing more on the Tokugawa Period or commonly known as the Edo period‚ one of the most influential time for Japan. Under the Tokugawa Shogunate‚ shoguns being military dictators picked by the Emperor to be the rulers‚ Japan was at the
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Japan From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia For the Wikipedia Manual of Style concerning Japan-related articles‚ see MOS:JP "Nippon" redirects here. For other uses‚ see Japan (disambiguation) and Nippon (disambiguation). Japan 日本国 Nippon-koku Nihon-koku Flag Imperial Seal Anthem: "Kimigayo" "君が代" MENU 0:00 Government Seal of Japan 五七桐 (Go-Shichi no Kiri ) ? Tokyo Capital 35°41′N 139°46′E None[1] Official languages Recognised regional languages Ethnic groups(2011[2])
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