Emperor of Japan

the general Japanese public met with problems of food shortages, the formation of community councils or chounaikai, inflation levels that had caused most Japanese citizens to be living below the poverty line and many other factors. These aspects of Japan are usually not taken into consideration when referencing their involvement in World War 2; one cause as to why many misunderstandings appear to surround their…

DBQ Essay Asian societies largely relied on cultural borrowing to form their governments, traditions, and societies. These documents show cultural diffusion through Japan borrowing ideas from China regarding government, different perspectives on others cultures, and the outward perceptions on each culture. Documents two and four focus on what cultural borrowing does to help grow governments. Documents one, three, and five discuss how the perspective of each country from the outside can help or…

is home to many extravagant religious statues. From Japan to Bangkok, to the far away Lantau Island in Hong Kong; each historical landmark represents what once was a triumphant feat. These giant artistic and religious symbols of Great Buddhas have all made an impact not only in the past, but remain a cultural icon for many of the individuals who live near it today. The Great Buddha of Kamakura sits outdoors in the green lands of Kamakura, Japan. Specifically, it is located “in the grounds…

In The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, Ruth Benedict paints a vivid picture of the Japanese thought process and their pattern of behavior. At a time when the United States was grappling with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the author was commissioned by the war department to conduct a study on the Japanese society and culture so as to familiarize the military with its enemy. However, unable to carry out her ethnography project using field work, Benedict uses “culture at a distance”, a sort of…

The last unifier Tokugawa Ieyasu was born in 1543 to a minor warlord in Okazaki. He grew up in a time of great chaos and disorder in Japan (the Sengoku period, he was forced to spend most of his childhood as a hostage of the Imagawa clan. Ieyasu received military and political training from the Imagawa family and became a military leader. He allied himself with two senior leaders firstly with Oda Nobunaga and later on with Toyotomi Hideyoshi. In 1600 Ieyasu became known as the most powerful…

allowed to visit her sickly aunt in Japan as a graduation gift from her parents. While she was there, Pearl Harbor took place. This caused increasing tension between the U.S and Japan, and it caused her to be stranded in Japan. Due to a paperwork problem, she missed the last returning American boat. During the beginning of stranding, the secret police went up to her and tried to force her to renounce her American citizenship and pledge her allegiance to the emperor. She refused to do…

The Japanese government and people of Japan are primary reasons for the extensive silence of the era of comfort women. Comfort women were and continued to be oppressed by the government and the familial hierarchy in Japan, as well as the devaluation of women within society. The Japanese government believed that any act could be justified under the name of their powerful Emperor. The Japanese government denied all of the allegations of war crimes and human…

Japan’s Educational System: An Admirable Method Most people would agree that the country of Japan is a world superpower that holds plenty of influence over much of the present world. Of course, the island country did not suddenly hold as much power as it currently does in a single day, nor did it have a lack of struggle to get to its current position. Japan has a long history that leads up to its current events, and a major portion of that history has contributed to the country’s current record…

Is Japan immune to social change? An essay on similarities and differences in the: society, culture and economy of the home islands, across Doctor Akagi and Akira. In this essay I will compare and contrast the Doctor Akagi and Akira. These two films, produced respectively 1988 (Akira) and 1998 (Doctor Akagi), show Japan in a time of crises, with destruction on the horizon. Throughout both the plot each film ventures in all aspects of society, from neo-slums to tech villas in Akira; to country…

period of warring states period between the Chinese warlords, foreign invasion from Japan and the civil war between the CCP and the KMT. The ethnic relations were not really at the top of the national agenda when all these chaos were taking place. Therefore, the development of ethnic relations did not start until 1949. In Japan, during the beginning of the 1900s, Japan started to expand its imperial empire, and Japan victimized many ethnic groups like the Ainu group. Moreover, many…