country‚ “[i]independence means to manage one’s own personal affairs and not to have a mind to depend on others…Japan must be filled with the spirit of independence if we are to defend her against foreign threats”(Havens‚ 16-17).To achieve this goal‚ Fukuzawa believed that education and equality was the key to the independence of Japan. In Tokugawa era‚ distinction of the rank which went by in the order of nobles‚ samurais‚ farmers and merchants existed‚ thus social hierarchy was rooted in the society
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992): 565-83. Bernstein‚ Gail Lee. Recreating Japanese Women: 1600-1945. Berkeley U.a.: Univ. of California‚ 1991. De Mente‚ Boye Lee. Mistress-Keeping in Japan - Then & Now. Phoenix‚ 2009. Fukuzawa‚ Yukichi‚ and Eiichi Kiyooka Fukuzawa Yukichi ;. Tokyo: Hokuseido‚ 1960. 70-74. Hane‚ Mikiso. Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan. Berkeley: University of California‚ 1988. Seigle‚ Cecilia Segawa. Preface. Yoshiwara: The Glittering World
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Bibliography: Columbia University ‚ "The Qianlong Emperor’s Edict on the Occasion of Lord Macartney’s Mission to China." Last modified 2009. Accessed February 19‚ 2013. http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/china/modern/tch_mcem.htm Fukuzawa‚ Yukichi Melville ‚ Herman . Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life. New York‚ NY: Penguin Group‚ Inc.‚ 1996. O’Brien‚ Patricia. “Lectures.” Georgetown University‚ January 15- February 12‚ 2013. Perry‚ Matthew Calbraith. The Japan Expedition‚ 1852-1854; The
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Saba Ammari History 240 -01 Paper 1 (Spring 2013) The Controversy of the Modernization of Japan (late 1800s-early 1900s) During the Meiji era‚ Japan underwent a major change from functioning and running under the system Tokugawa shogunate to the modern era. The Meiji era brought about changes that affected Japan’s social‚ economic‚ political‚
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and Information Studies GIGA Program Sex Male □Female Nationality 3 College Road Purchase‚ NY‚ 12345 USA 1-XXXX-XXX-XXX E-mail Address ■Academic background (Starting from elementary/primary school to high school) Location Name of School Yukichi Elementary School ABC Middle School XYZ International High School Tokyo‚ Japan NY‚ U.S.A. NY‚ U.S.A. Dates Attended (Year/Month – Year/Month) (State/Province‚ Country) Grades Attended 1-5 5-8 9 - 12 - * 2000/4 – 2004/9 2004/9 – 2008/6
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THE MEIJI RESTORATION AND LATE QING REFORMATION: AN ANALYSIS OF OUTCOMES. Before Western incursion in South East Asia‚ both China and Japan had enjoyed self-imposed isolation from the rest of the world. Whereas China had limited its contact to the outside world to limited trade at a few ports—a system known as the “Canton” system‚ Japan‚ however‚ had completely shut itself to the outside world—an attempt to stay foreign influence on its radical feudal political system. This brought significant
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The study of Japanese literature is usually divided into classical Japanese literature and modern Japanese literature. Line of demarcation is 1868‚ the date of the Meiji Restoration. Pre-Meiji Japan Tokugawa Period (1600-1868) = Period of Great Peace = Maintenance of the status quo = Domains and Daimyō frozen in status 1. Official ideology -- Neo-Confucianism Before Tokugawa period‚ Confucianism played subordinate role in Japanese thought. Confucianism remained a secular moral and political
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Since opening its “doors” in 1852‚ Western ideals began to influence the way Japanese people saw themselves. Many did not believe a nation-state could be consolidated under the Tokugawa regime‚ and should therefore reform the government and the nation according to Western ideology. This is perhaps best exemplified in the Meiji Restoration‚ which began as a way to not only reform the old Tokugawa way of life‚ but to also transform Japan into a nation that could stand on equal grounds with the West
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From the onset of the 1800s and trailing into the early 1900s Japan and China had a series of advances and declines in their status of world powers. This time frame for Japan and China saw a series of treaties‚ technological advances‚ and a wide range of military operations influence the balance of powers in each nation. Japan with their ability to accept Western knowledge and technology allowed them to become a world power in line with European countries and the United States. On the flip side
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Cited: Lu‚ David. JAPAN. A Documentary History. Volume II. The late Tokugawa Period To the Present.n.d.Armonk‚ Newyork; East gate Fridell‚ Wilbur.” FAMILY-STATE” (KAZUKU-KUKKA): AN IMPERIAL IDEOLOGY FOR MEIJI JAPAN.1970. University of Hawaii Yukichi‚ Fukuzawa. An Outline of a Theory of Civilisation.2009. Newyork‚ NY: Columbia University Press. Mizuno‚ Norihito. “JAPAN AND ITS EAST ASIAN NEIGHBORS: JAPAN’S PERCEPTION OF CHINAAND KOREA AND THE MAKING OF FOREIGN POLICY FROM THESEVENTEENTH TO THE NINETEENTH
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