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    and Japan. These countries used to be part of the tributary system of China, and thus Chinese emperor had a superior position in the East Asia. However, with the fading of Qing Dynasty, Japan left the tributary system, and the Meiji government started the Meiji Restoration to strengthen the country in 1868. While the Qing government was decaying in the 19th century,…

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    guarantees certain fundamental rights. The post war or the peace constitution is quite different form previous constitution of Japan the Meiji Constitution of 1889. In Meiji constitution the emperor was a fundamental law of the former state. Also the constitution itself was mix between Constitutional and absolute monarchy based on Prussian and British models. In Meiji constitution emperor was a law and supreme commander of military differently from post war constitution the emperor was solely…

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    Decolonization Of Japan

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    power, except for the U.S. The U.S., if they actually used the manpower and colonized Japan, could’ve used Japan as a jumping off point for the invasion of the Philippines during the Spanish-American War, which would be about thirty years after the Meiji…

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    Hard times in the Hometown was written by Martin Dusinberre, an English teacher who travels to Kaminoseki, a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, a small town on Japan’s Inland Sea who later returns to start dissertation fieldwork in 2003. This book is featured more so in parts rather with the inclusion of chapters to broaden his study rather than use each chapter to focus on one topic at hand. At first thought, the method of writing Kaminoseki in a broad manner seemed opposite to what history…

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    The last samurai, Takamori Saigo (1827 to 1877) Takamori was born the eldest son of a lower ranking samurai family. Takamori saigo, the Japanese rebel and samurai (1828 to 1877) was the military leader of meji restoration. Takamori was one of the most influential samurai in Japanese history guided by his beliefs and values. He is now referred to as the last true samurai. Takamori grows up influenced by his culture As a child, Takamori was influenced and showed much interest in Wang Yangming…

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    Cuban Independence There were a few major revolts throughout the 19th century. The first, in 1836, was quickly put down and the organizers were executed. The second, starts in 1868 and lasts for 10 years. It was also stopped. But this rebellion convinced the Spanish to abolish slavery in the island, which they did in 1884. The final rebellion, starts in 1895, brought in the forces of the United States and resulted in the Spanish American War of 1898. The United States wanted the Spanish colony.…

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    In 1603, the Tokugawa shoguns seized control in Japan and shut it to outsiders. For over 200 years, Japan was detached from different countries. After some time, distress developed among numerous Japanese as they suffered money related hardship and absence of political influence. The legislature reacted by attempting to resuscitate old ways, stressing cultivating over business. These attempts had little achievement, and the shoguns' power became weak. At that point, in 1853, an armada of very…

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    Self Strengthen Movement

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    the Chinese were more resistance to it. Some similarities between the Japanese and Chinese response to Western pressure are 1) both had some sort of movement or reform (In China, it was the Self Strengthening Movement and In Japan, it was the Meiji Restorations) to strengthen their military by adopting Western military and industrial technologies 2) in the beginning, both China and Japan resisted to the Western influences through isolation. 3) both China and Japan's reform movement were…

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    As the emperor his only job is to ensure that Kami properly looks after Japan properly. The Emperor wasn’t always a political character and was more of a ceremonial character before the Nobel men before him gave him political power in the meiji restoration. however on order of the U.S. government the Emperor surrendered his divinity on January 1 1946 though he still continues his rituals it is on a private…

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    exact scene was depicted in The Last Samurai which proves that the film has a significant amount of accuracy in terms of the Satsuma rebellion. The Meiji Restoration was a chain of events that restored practical, industrialised imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji. This was depicted accurately in the film…

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