After many changes within the government of Japan‚ such as the abolishment of the daimyo domains in 1871‚ laws enforcing the status system abolished between 1869 and 1871‚ compulsory elementary education in 1872‚ new tax laws and systems which replaced the old tax system in 1873‚ and a new military conscription system that made it compulsory for young adult males to join the military in 1873‚ the imperial government finally looked to dismantle the Tokugawa system. In 1876‚ the final blow to the old
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homeland of Kagoshima the area in which he and his band of warriors made their historical last charge. The last battle is portrayed uniquely across both cultures. Takamori’s upbringing was that of the lower class samurai under the Shimazu Nariakira daimyo of Satsuma. The former regime of Hideyoshi
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“Little boy” and “Fat man”. These were the names of the two devastating atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. One‚ a gun-assembly fission bomb where “a mass of Uranium-235 is fired down a gun barrel toward another mass of Uranium-235”. The other‚ an Implosion fission bomb where “a sphere of Plutonium-239 is surrounded by high explosives that compress the plutonium”. Both bombs had a TNT equivalent of over 15‚000 tons‚ and the sheer force of both explosions was equal to the load of nearly
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A. INTRODUCTION In 1988‚ graft and corruption in the Philippines was considered as the "biggest problem of all" by Jaime Cardinal Sin‚ the Archbishop of Manila. Then President Corazon C. Aquino likewise despaired that corruption has returned. In 1989‚ public perception was that "corrupt government officials are greater threat to the country" than the communist guerrillas. In 1992‚ former President Fidel V. Ramos considered graft and corruption as the third major hindrance towards attaining his development
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Japan achieved sustained growth in per capita income between the 1880s and 1970 through industrialization. Moving along an income growth trajectory through expansion of manufacturing is hardly unique. Indeed Western Europe‚ Canada‚ Australia and the United States all attained high levels of income per capita by shifting from agrarian-based production to manufacturing and technologically sophisticated service sector activity. Still‚ there are four distinctive features of Japan ’s development through
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Ap History Unit 6 Essay When looking at the time period of 1450-1740‚ there were changes and continuities in China and Japan’s interaction with the West. China and Japan had continuous problems with Western Christian missionaries coming in and trying to convert. The Chinese and the Japanese also had many dilemmas with the Europeans’ interest in their products over time‚ especially when China and Japan started to get interested in silver. Some changes were that over time‚ the different methods
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Code of Bushido was the samurai’s code of conduct. Seppuku was a ritual suicide committed by samurai when they had lost their honor or betrayed their daimyo. This means way of the warrior‚ and for samurai this meant a large focus on honor and loyalty. Knights learned and lived by a set code of behavior called chivalry. Chivalry means the medieval knight’s code of behavior‚ including bravery‚ loyalty‚
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the people who really controlled the nations were the lords and their armies. The lord in Europe had lesser lords called vassals‚ who had knights to protect them. The shogun was the actual ruler in Japan and they gave out land to landowners called daimyo. Samurais protected them in exchange for land. Samurais and knights lived by similar codes of honor and had the occupation of protecting their lords. They were well-respected and considered nobles in Japan and Europe. In both feudal societies‚ peasants
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ASAN 100 31 January 2013 Shunga The Japanese word Shunga means “Image of Spring‚” which is a nicer common way of saying sex. The word Shunga is a contraction of‚ shunkyu-higi-ga‚ and the Japanese pronunciation for Chinese sets of the twelve sexual acts that the crowned prince had to conduct as an expression of yin yang. But Shunga‚ as it is more commonly known‚ is really a word for Japanese works of art‚ specifically Japanese erotic paintings that were made from the 16th and 18th centuries‚ by
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Intro: Although the big empires‚ Europe and Japan were really successful feudalist empires and both had some similarities and differences during the 9th to 13th century‚ which made them unique empires in the world. Both of the empires have a similar concept of elite warriors‚ different treatment of women during the post-classical era‚ and a similar political structure of a hereditary caste system‚ which were the main reasons they became successful empires. Body Paragraph#1: Both the Europeans and
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