Constitution of Japan

the movies are racially motivated. The Last Samurai is one of the popular multicultural movies in the world. In the movie, A U.S general stands for native Japanese and fights against government. People might think this movie is awesome because nobody thinks that a white man with sword leads samurai army to fight against to the Japanese government. However, some people seriously think that it shows the pattern of the “White Messiah” films like Avatar. In the movie, Captain Nathan Algren, a U.S. general, encourages samurais, native Japanese, to fight against to enormous enemies. In the samurai village, when Algren is captured by samurais, he understands their culture and knows that samurais want to stop trade agreements between U.S. and Japan. Before the civil war, he gets reputations and a special sword from samurais. During the war, he manages his army like a Japanese general and kills a lot of well-armed enemies. After the war, Algren cannot win the war, but he stops trade agreements by giving an impression to the Japanese emperor. If Sangupta sees this movie, she would mention that Native Japanese soldiers need nothing from Algren. Samurais don’t have military technology like Gatling gun and canon. However, they have “swords and arrows” that can be used properly in their forest, not a place without trees and obstacles. The “White Messiah” film makes stereotype racially because it always shows a white character becoming a hero in a tribe. When Algren is captured by…

main influencers in the spread of Buddhism throughout Japan. The legends of his birth and life show that he is himself a Bodhisattva who was sent to the world to assist others in the achievement of enlightenment. Though his contribution to the spread of Buddhism throughout Japan cannot depreciated, Prince Shōtoku influenced Japan in other, major ways. He was known to also be a brilliant politician who changed the Japanese government for the better after a time of political and religious crisis…

An island nation straddled along the Pacific coast of Asia, modern Japan is home to over 126 million people. Of those, 38 million live in Japan’s capital of Tokyo (Central Intelligence Agency, 2016). Japanese people share a distinctive culture. According to the U.S. Army Doctrine Reference Publication 5-0 (2012), culture is best described as, “shared beliefs, values, norms, customs, behaviors, and artifacts members of a society use to cope with the world and each other”. Japan’s culture…

nationalists in Japan but the influence of nationalists in Japan is well shown in Matthew’s article, “the country 's Self Defense Forces (SDF) are increasing dramatically their expenditures on missile defense, requesting $1.2 billion for it in 2004, nine times more than the total spent from 1999 to 2003.” The cause of the dramatic increase in the expenditures cannot really be considered as increase in global conflicts but rather as nationalist influence from high Japanese officials, preparing a…

smaller spaces. Other aspects that often occur while a nation is rising is militarization along with social and educational reforms. Japan followed this path and did not leave the course of “normal”, national behavior until the 1900s when it became as imperial power. One of the aspects that deviated Japan from its original route was the hatred…

Shirin Shahsavari 12/22/15 G Block How Did Contact with China influence Japan? Contact between Japan and China goes back to around 200 AD. At the time, China was much more advanced and powerful than Japan. The Japanese people soon became fascinated with Chinese philosophies and ideas and started to adopt Chinese ways to suit their own needs. As Ancient Japan was developing, it faced an internal division of clans that made the Japanese authorities adopt a range of Chinese political values and…

declaring itself a nuclear state. North Korea employs the policy, byunjin in which the state pursuits nuclear power and economic development (28; 29). North Korea has been an ominous and uncanny neighbor for Japan. Many Japanese citizens have been kidnaped by North Korea, which is the long lasting unsolved diplomatic issue between Japan and North Korea, giving Japan an impression that North Korea is a state where international common sense does not apply. Besides, geographical proximity makes…

Religion is additionally an important element and dimension the makes up the Japanese culture. Japan’s religious background is not always easy to grasp and can consequently present itself as unclear to western cultures. Outside of the indigenous spirituality of Shintoism, Buddhism arrived in Japan from Korea around the 6th Century, while the minority religion of Christianity was brought to Japan ten centuries later by Jesuit missionaries (Crane, Bruce, Salmon, Eich, & Brandewie, 2012). Japan’s…

Both Japan and Cambodia are countries which belong to Asia, the largest continent on Earth. On the other hand, based on the term “geographical realm”, they are in different realms. One is in East Asia, and the other is in Southeast Asia. They also have the distinction in many aspects such as physical pattern, history, population features, economic and political issues, and socio-cultural issues. The characteristics of Japan and Cambodia will be explored obviously by looking at the similarities…

Shinto is an ethnic, Japanese religion. Shinto is also referred to as Kam-no-Michi: “the way of Gods.” It is an assortment of beliefs and ritual practices focused on creating a connection between present day Japan and its ancient past. Early Shinto practices were first recorded in the 8th century, but these writings did not refer to Shinto necessarily as “organized religion” but rather a collection of beliefs and mythology. Shintos believes that nature is exact with the divine. Shinto…