Japan

vassals’ status. The shogunate system served as the political system in Japan until the second half of the nineteenth century. The system worked effectively, and it was fortunate that it did, because during the next century, Japan faced the most serious challenge it had confronted yet. The Mongols were now attempting to assert their hegemony throughout all of Asia. In 1226, Emperor Khubilai Khan demanded tribute from Japan. When the Japanese refused, he invaded with an army of more than 30,000…

occurred in 1937 between China and Japan, and lasted for eight years until it ended in 1945. This piece of artwork was made in Shanghai, and it was named The Art of Influence: Asian Propaganda. This art piece shows the aspect of the war by the drawing of the tanks, planes, etc. The Sin-Japanese War occurred because of a decade-long Japanese imperialist policy targeting China politically and military in order to obtain their vast materials. China was able to fight Japan with the economical help…

Kyoto; Japan Kyoto was the ancient capital of Japan containing 250 000 people, give or take a few. Kyoto was established in 794. Kyoto was divided into four parts, the East, West, South and North ends, Kyoto covers 827.90 acres of Japan's land. Kyoto consists of various of seasons, summer dad could get very hot while winter days were average. Kyoto was the place of culture and art, woodblock paintings by artisans had become very common, Zen gardens and Geishas became popular. Kyoto was known for…

Zoughari, Kacem. The Ninja: Ancient Shadow Warriors of Japan (The Secret History of Ninjutsu). 1 ed., Vermont, Tuttle Publishing, 2013, pp. 28-88. The Ninja: Ancient Shadow Warriors of Japan (The Secret History of Ninjutsu), is a book about the art of ninjitsu, including its various forms, how it is practiced and the history of ninjitsu. However, for doing research on historical ninja, its second and third chapters, “The Public Record of Ninjitsu”, and “The Private History of Ninjitsu,” proved…

oceanic or continental they move mainly because of the gravity but also because the mantle a mixture of rock and melted rock so it move but not as fast as it would move in a liquid. The Sea plates are heavier than the Land plates which is the case of Japan. The tsunami is an earthquake under water but because of the pressure the water will move really fast and it the wave will increasingly become higher as the sea floor's depth decrease. A tsunami wave is extremely powerful and nothing can stop…

The artist Kawase Hasui, was a printmaker who used color and repetition to uniquely style his works. He was one of the most famous artists of the “Shin Hanga” movement during early 20th century Japan. Influenced by Impressionism, “Shin Hanga” meant “new prints” that focused on landscapes and portraits using various amount of colors. As a leader in this movement, Kawase Hasui created many landscapes, often using the same woodblock only with different colors. However, he presented more of the…

media involving shinobi refer to them has ninja. For the purpose of this presentation I shall refer to them as shinobi. Now during the actual wars in japan ninjas were relatively undocumented with the exception being “Sun Tzu's: The Art Of War” where they are mentioned briefly. However though not documented in war times,come peace in japan and their where suddenly many shinobi out of work. And some of them turned to documenting their work, it is from that work that we have had an…

small victories in the islands surrounding Japan, the country’s military strategists failed to adequately defend the home island. Failure of its leaders to protect their own people severely diminished trust amongst the Japanese people therefore lowering moral and support for an expansive war. American forces took advantage of Japan’s desire to destroy US fleets in the Pacific via ambush submarine attacks, and decided to do the unthinkable by hitting Japan at home while behind their new barricade…

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…

note. The note was a note of the devil which the devil used to kill people. If someone wrote another person’s name in the note, the person would die. The student decided to kill every criminal to change the world much safely. The rate of crime in Japan started to decrease sharply, and Japanese people started to call him as a hero. At the other hand, Japanese police decided to hire the most popular detective to arrest him. The comic is a story of the battle between the student who had the note…