Meiji Restoration

off Japanese society from Westernizing influences, particularly Christianity. But when the Tokugawa shogunate growing increasingly weak by the mid-19th century, two powerful clans joined forces in early 1868 to seize power as part of an “imperial restoration” named for Emperor…

Starting at a young age, citizens of any given nation begin to learn the history of their nation. Including the specifics of the history within the nation itself, or history outside the nation that lead to changes being made within. It is typical not to hold back on the history that is taught to the young people of a nation, because we are taught history to both understand how we got to the state that we are now in as a country and how we can prevent repetition of horrific historical events.…

Now it begun to be a bit more peaceful, there are no factions trying to kill each other and they have an army and a navy that is merely for self defense, having unity with everyone. The Meiji Restoration had things change and go to power of the new ruler, at that point Samurai pretty much died out in the 1860’s. Similar to the United States they also strived for industrialization. The city of Kyoto was not the head of the country as it was moved…

provide jobs. I returned shortly and safely after, thoroughly enlightened and pleased. I feel that history books can never show you these events the way I have, even though I witnessed murder and violence. Just to satisfy your curiosity, the Meiji Restoration did begin in 1868, yet that is a story for another……

Japan is generally thought of as a nation with deep cultural values that are embedded in its business culture as well. Hard work with an emphasis on quality has always been a key feature in Japanese businesses that drove economic growth in the late twentieth century. With an economy once projected to take over the United States as the largest economy in the world, the perception of business in Japan has always been positive. According to Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index…

The most important feature of the medieval period is that the samurai (warrior-administrators) replaced the court government in managing local government. Because the court government had no police force, bands of samurai gained power when the Heian government neglected the administration of the provinces. Samurai strength rested on strong group loyalty and discipline. These bands managed large areas of rice land in eastern Japan, around modern Tôkyô. In 1185 a new government was founded by…

With the loss of a major governing role in the shoguns the useless emperor was the center of power and he would deal with foreign trade. This was called the Meiji restoration stated by asia. With shoguns out of the picture the emperor could advance the country and allow for more ideas to spread into japan which would industrialize the country so fast that soon after being imperialized they became the ones doing the…

The History of Warring Women Though samurai in the traditional sense where not formed until the late-Heian period. High ranking women engaged in combat and took military command. Instances of onna-bugeisha date from before Japan’s first occurrences of written history all the way to the mid-nineteenth. The warrior women’s roles in war transformed several times throughout the expansive timeline in which they existed. Some of the first evidence of combative women dates from the mid Kofun Period…

To start with, historically, “In terms of theatrical background, it is a tradition that boy actors played women’s roles in Shakespeare’s time. Women had little or no part in the English theatrical history before the restoration of King Charles II in 1660, when it became possible for women to pursue a theatrical career”(Liu 79). Disallowing women from the stage was the rule for a very long time almost worldwide. So despite any subversive elements of cross-dressing in Shakespeare’s…

In addition to the need for security, pre-existing xenophobia fueled Japanese Internment. Since the foundation of the United States, the country has picked a different group of people to ostracize. The anti-Japanese sentiment roots towards the hatred for the Chinese people’s menial job takeover, which began during the Gold Rush. Americans were afraid that the Chinese, and eventually the Japanese, would steal all the jobs. This created a lot of hostility among working class Americans and even…