Nobunga's Influence On Society

Throughout the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, Japan was being ruled by Shogunates, which were established and decentralized military governments. It was during this time that Japan was finally brought to peace from the internal warfare from within the country due to the efforts of three leaders. One of those leaders was a merciless man when it came to warfare named Oda Nobunga. During his reign he wiped out most of the Ashikaga shoguns and daimyos while also slaughtering Buddhist monks at the Mount Hiei monastery. In 1582 Nobunga was betrayed by some of his top generals who burned down the temple he was residing in where he perished in the fire. One of those generals, whose name in Toyotomi Hideyoshi, moved to take his place in power. Hideyoshi
The idea of having a national identity overlaps with the ideology of nationalism, which is the belief in the well-being of a nation-state as an entity is considered foremost. There are multiple kinds of nationalism such as military nationalism, cultural nationalism, and ethnic nationalism. Before the Tokugawa rulers, the main four religions of Japan were Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity, and Shintoism. One of the previous rulers, Nobunga, was interested in the religion and had tried to get the entire country to convert. This created scrutiny throughout the regions, which some groups began to disobey their overlords. However, in fear of the religion influencing and starting rebellions, Tokugawa made Christianity illegal. At the time some foreigner traders were allowed into certain cities, but by the year of 1630, all Japanese ships were forbidden from sailing overseas. Finally, in the year 1649, all boarders were closed, which meant no foreigners in and no citizens
After a few years of war, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki which resulted in Japan’s surrender on September 2, 1945. Because of their surrender, nationalists felt that they have lost everything, and Japan has been stripped of its power in the world. Japan lost its sovereignty and did not reclaim it until 1952. Today, Japan is one of the most technologically and developed countries in the world. In 2012, the current prime minister, Shinzo Abe, was elected and is a nationalist with revisionist ideas. A revisionist is someone who wants to alter or re-interpret history to make one’s country appear to be in the right or better. If Abe’s revisionist narrative were to be approved, this would boost Japan’s nationalism and patriotism in the generations to come. Elders and current generations, however, would more than likely be unmoved by such a feat. Some previous revisionists have been successful in rewriting Japanese history textbooks and integrating them into schools. For example, according to Vox’s Johnny Harris, the Nanking Massacre is “referred to as the Nanking “Incident,” and the only attention it gets in this book is basically disputing the fact. There’s no mention of the hundreds of thousands of Korean women who were forcibly brought over to serve in brothels on the frontline of the Japanese wars