East Asian nations. China‚ Japan‚ and Korea were all faced great challenges in the modern era and responded to them in different ways. China and Korea turned inwards initially and opened up (except for North Korea) more recently‚ while Japan was the first to modernize and has been open for decades. The first and possibly most tragic country in the modern period was China which stuck firmly to traditionalism into the 20th century and would later on westernize and open up. China stuck to traditionalism
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R314632 Japan – China ‚ Their Modernization and the comparison China and Japan both came under pressure from the West in the 19th century. The West wanted to open up foreign trade and relations‚ during this period in time neither Japan or China had the means to stand up against the West. This due to the fact that both the United states of America and Europe went through an industrial revolution‚ hence they had superior technology and weaponry for this time period. Japan and China basically had
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Japan posts China trade deficit Japan has a lower export revenue than import spending to the EU and China which led to the fall of their GDP by 0.9% - GDP=C+G+I+(X-M) a fall in X will lead to a fall in GDP‚ ceteris paribus - and as exports to their top export destination‚ China‚ decreases by a total of 12% ‚ Japan‚ one of the world’s top economies‚ will have another consecutive quarter of falling GDP‚ leading them into a recession. We can see a deflationary gap forming and a decrease in real
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Japan invades China (1931-37) Japan’s main objectives of invading China in 1931 were to destroy communism and poses control over neighboring areas on the Asian continent. It was believed such a control was necessary to be able to issue possible military threats and inquire the natural resources needed to insure Japan’s economic independence. “By defeating Russia in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905‚ Japan acquired possession of Russia’s Liaodong Peninsula Leasehold‚ which she renamed the Kwantung
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a long period full of isolation. During the 19th century‚ Japan and Korea were exposed to the threat of foreign powers‚ rapid modernization‚ economic progress‚ and an expansion of their social structure. The economic success attained by these two countries is impressive and well known. They both share common ideological traits‚ but also have different‚ unique pathways that brought themselves to modernization. Korea was different than Japan because of their highly centralized government. The Korean
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CHINA AND JAPAN RIVALRY ON THE DISPUTED ISLAND On September 7th‚ 2010 a Chinese fishing craft collided with two Japanese coastguard patrol boats near the oil-rich‚ uninhabited islands in the East China Sea known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu‚ meaning ‘fishing platform’‚ in China. Following the collision‚ coastguards boarded the trawler and arrested its crew and Captain Zhan Qixiong who‚ as subsequent video footage revealed‚ had rammed his boat into the coastguard vessels. Following the
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China vs. Japan: who wins? China and Japan have had both long and eventful histories. Throughout the years‚ China has used its big lands and huge population to expand its empire. On the other hand Japan has had a respectable amount of population but not so much land compared to China. Both China and Japan have had similar and different histories. In this essay‚ we will distinguish the similarities and differences of China’s and Japan’s Geographical‚ Political‚ and economical pasts. To begin
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The classical civilizations of China and India are similar in social inequality due to the treatment of women and every individual being given a role in society. They differ in the flexibility in the social hierarchy and the presence or absence of coerced labor. China is similar to India in their treatment of women. India and China both treated women as subordinate to men. In China‚ the 5 relationships in Confucianism beliefs placed women on the lower end of the relationship. In India‚ women were
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tolerance of differences‚ and the practice of mindfulness meditation characterize all traditions. Buddhism had an important role in the development of Japanese art between the sixth and sixteen centuries. Buddhist art and religion came to japan from China‚ with the with the arrival of a bronze Buddhist sculpture alongside the sutras. Crown Prince Taishi in the Suiko period in the sixth century and Emperor Shomu encouraged Buddhist art in the Nara period in the eighth century. In the early Heian
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grey and more thought without there similarities we couldn’t see these varieties of grey. So when we talk about architecture our eye can’t get off differences and similarities between things so when we are dealing with great buildings like the Parthenon and the pantheon we must have a fast look on differences and similarities between Greek and Roman architecture. A lot of people think that there are no differences between Greek and Roman architecture as they look much alike and they are
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