Japan is ripe in culture and history that is not so dissimilar from western history both went through a bustling feudal era with many similarities. The main similarity was their order of honorable soldiers‚ which were knights in the west and Samurai in Japan but both followed a similar code of honor and loyalty. The real question is how did this class of aristocratic warriors rise out of nothing to become the ruling class of Japan. The Samurai are one of Japan’s most iconic cultural symbol that has
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Concentric lines versus grid circles In this paper‚ we will describe the ethical dilemma between concentric line and grid circle thinking‚ in what I believe the Japanese warrior tradition‚ bushido‚ terms as the dilemma between “giri” and “ninjo”‚ or loosely translated‚ duty and compassion. Let us first begin by describing examples of these ethical dilemmas. Let us say that you are a samurai‚ a Japanese warrior‚ sworn to give your life for your liege lord‚ and whose commands you are sworn to
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Hampton Sides. Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II’s Most Dramatic Mission. New York. Doubleday. 2001 The Ghosts of Bataan Hampton Sides succeeded in representing the missing‚ forgotten‚ unheard‚ and often misinterpreted stories of some of World War II”s most dramatic missions. The goal of Ghost Soldiers was to bring together the scattered tales both horrific and heroic aspects of the conflict from a historically factual and unbiased point of view. The situation of the
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same for anything that is called a Way. If one understands things in this manner‚ he should be able to hear about all ways and be more and more in accord with his own.” Thus is the struggle of Ghost Dog‚ an African American trying to live by the Bushido code of the Samurai‚ as dictacted by the book the Hagakure: Way of the Samurai‚ while living in a world dominated by the declining respectability of the Italian-American Mafia‚ the Cosa Nostra. Throughout this film‚ certain themes including foreshadowing
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Michael Kim Ms. Jones World Since 1500 23/1/18 Why The Meiji Restoration Prevented Japan’s Colonization Prior to the arrival of Commodore Perry‚ Japan enjoyed peace and stability for 200 years under the Tokugawa Shogunate. However‚ Japanese society remained isolated and failed to integrate modern innovations from the industrial revolution‚ resulting in her being left behind in the feudal times. The Japanese proponents for progress began to show their dissatisfaction for the Tokugawa Shogunate
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The movies Shall we Dance embody the concept of a loss of happiness in one’s life and finding it in an unconventional way. Both deal with not being entirely joyful in one’s life though they appear to have everything they ever wanted: a family‚ a house‚ a stable job‚ and the ability to support themselves. In the American and Japanese version‚ they both look at how dancing might have the answer that the main characters needed to find a happy balance in one’s life and the positive impacts of it. For
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Musui’s Story: A Transition From Isolation to Interaction The varying social interactions between status groups in Katsu Kokichi’s autobiography‚ Musui’s Story‚ convey a shift from the hierarchically strict Heian/Kamakura epochs to the more socially open late Tokugawa period. Throughout the work‚ Katsu illustrates his various dealings and communications with peasants‚ merchants‚ artisans and fellow samurai. While in theory a social hierarchy still presided‚ Musui’s Story dismisses the notion that
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Research Paper Shadow Warrior by Akira Kurosawa The film “Shadow Warrior” also known as “Kagemusha” was made by Kurosawa in the year of 1980. The film recounted the actual historical event about the death of a great samurai Shingen Takeda who was known as the head of Takeda family. The film started in the year of 1573 while all samurai families competed with each other and the final goal was to unite Japan as a whole. The period was also known as Sengoku period. The story began in Shingen’s place
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Dropping the Atomic Bomb: Was it really necessary? In 1945‚ the United States with help from Canada‚ released a new force into unsuspecting Japan which shocked the world. It was the weapon the Manhattan project spent months working on while spending approximately $20 billion. It used up to 12% of America’s electricity during the war even though many people did not know what they were working on. It was a weapon so powerful that many heads of this project feared it would go terribly wrong. It would
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The samurai is a class of highly skilled warriors‚ constantly developed in Japan after Taika reform of 646 CE. The reforms included land redistribution and heavy new taxes‚ meant to support and elaborate Chinese-style empire. Samurai is usually assigned in Japanese as bush or buke‚ were the military nobility of medieval and early-modern Japan. The samurai indicate their origins to the Heian Period expedition to conquer the native Emishi people in the Tohoku Region. At the same time‚ warriors were
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