Korea under Japanese rule

Improvement of Korea-Japan relationship: three negotiable fields Japan is geographically one of the closest countries to South Korea, at the same time, historically the most uncomfortable country because of Japanese colonization in the early 1900s. In a point of the South Korean government, although Japan’s distortion of history made the relationship worse, it is necessary to maintain a close relationship between two countries in the rapidly changing situation of East Asian region. To make an…

Manchuria, in China. In September 1931, the Japanese Imperial Army sabotaged their own railway and then claimed that the Chinese terrorists had done it. So the Japanese army attacked the Chinese army. The Japanese then went on to conquer Manchuria and were successful by February 1932. There were a number of important causes to this invasion including the Great Depression, Manchuria was an easy target as it suited Japans needs. Also The Japanese army had strong control over their…

By the 1500s, Japanese ports were open to many Christian traders, like the Dutch, French, and Portuguese. That marked the spread of Christianity along the Japanese islands. Once more, cultural diffusion took place, and the Christian traders spread their own beliefs onto their Japanese comrades. However, this new religion created ripples in the strict lifestyle of the Japanese. The various exposure to the various belief systems and traditions caused certain Japanese to convert their Buddhist…

In recent Chinese and Japanese history, the period that was the most important for the development of ethnic relations were different. In China, before 1949, the country was in turmoil where after the 1911 revolution that overthrown the imperial family there was the 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…

According to the author, many Japanese soldiers in the prime of their youth, and to act in such a way was a complex mixture of the times they lived in. Japan’s senior military officials also lived in a different time period and they still had the Japanese ancient warrior tradition and mentality. Many had an immense amount of societal pressure, economic necessity and ultimately, sheer desperation. The author also explains that the Japanese government also looked into foreign media, and…

military conquests. He was known for his barbaric , nature, and his cruel and brutal form of rule. Many of his military achievements include, his strategic victories at the : The Battle of…

period of civil war. During this period, Portuguese traders made contact with the nation, establishing lines of trade with the Western world. The late sixteenth century saw the rise of the daimyo Oda Nobunga, who reunited the Japanese islands, recommencing a period of centralized rule. Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, the ruling Tokugawa shogunate imposed a policy known as Sakoku – an isolationist policy that saw Japan restrict access from the outside world (Totman,…

in an effort to preserve the philosophy in the face of burgeoning Buddhist and Confucianist influences.” Most of the people who have been carrying it down are monks, and if there are no monks, you would probably lose the religion. That is why the Japanese government is trying to save it, so we can believe in Shinto for many generations to…

When the Japanese surrendered and left the country it was split between the Vietnam and the French. Eventually the leader of Vietnam’s democracy, Ho Chi Minh, declared that Vietnam was now its own independent country. This caused a war to erupt between the followers…

However, as the Industrial Revolution continued to spread, more changes kept shifting family life. As time went on, a new strict code developed that families had to abide by. There were rules that said how dress at any occasion, how to give dinner parties, pay for a social call, when to write letters, how long to be sad over a dead relative, and parents taught their children that they were expected to be seen but not heard from. Along with…