Caste is a form of social stratification characterized by endogamy‚ hereditary transmission of a style of life which often includes an occupation‚ ritual status in a hierarchy‚ and customary social interaction and exclusion based on cultural notions of purity and pollution.[1][2] Its paradigmatic ethnographic example is the division of India’s Hindu society into rigid social groups‚ with roots in India’s ancient history and persisting until today. However‚ the economic significance of the caste system
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Tokugawa Japan’s history began in the 17th century when Tokugawa Ieyasu forged documents in order to validate his claim on the title shogun and ended those who opposed his position. It is during the Tokugawa regime that foreign influences changed and evolved the political‚ social‚ and‚ to an extent‚ economic lives of the people. From the westerners‚ Christianity entered and the religion shaped the policies and social issues‚ also foreign trade affected the natural resources of Japan. On the other
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have utterly no confidence. I hope you will try to avoid war with America". Isoroku Yamamoto was born in Nagaoka‚ Niigata‚ Japan. His father was Sadayoshi Takano‚ an intermediate samurai of the Nagaoka Domain. In 1916‚ Isoroku was adopted into the Yamamoto family (another family of former Nagaoka samurai) and took the Yamamoto name. It was a common practice for Japanese families lacking sons to adopt suitable young men to carry on the family name. In 1918‚ Isoroku married a woman named Reiko
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attempt to remake Japanese monarch into absolute Chinese-style emperor & create pro bureaucracy & peasant army Bushi – regional warrior leaders; rule small kingdoms‚ administer laws‚ supervise public works‚ collect revenues‚ build private armies Samurai – mounted troops of bushi; loyal to local lords‚ not the emperor Seppuku – ritual suicide/disembowelment in Japan; demonstrated courage and a means to restore family honor Shogun – military leaders of the bakufu Daimyo – warlord leaders of 300 small
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ISSUE 11. Did Women and Men Benefit Equally From the Renaissance? YES: Margaret L. King‚ from Women of the Renaissance NO: Joan Kelly-Gadol‚ from "Did Women Have a Renaissance?" in Renate Bridenthal‚ Claudia Koonz‚ and Susan Stuard‚ eds.‚ Becoming Visible: Women in European History‚ 2d ed. http://www.dushkin.com/catalog/0072548665.mhtml?SECTION=TOC ISSUE 1. Did Homo Sapiens Originate in Africa? YES: Christopher Stringer and Robin McKie‚ from African Exodus: The Origins of Modern Humanity NO:
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East Asian martial arts Disarming an attacker using a tachi-dori ("sword-taking") technique. The historical origin of Japanese martial arts can be found in the warrior traditions of the samurai and the caste system that restricted the use of weapons by members of the non-warrior classes. Originally‚ samurai were expected to be proficient in many weapons‚ as well as unarmed combat‚ and attain the highest possible mastery of combat skills‚ for the purpose of glorifying either themselves or their
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Japan and Europe already have many similarities and differences in many categories such as their geographic location and their culture but they also have similarities which come from the past history of both. Feudalism is one common characteristic that they had throughout history. They may differ but the many characteristics of feudalism can also prove they are the same. Feudalism developed slightly later in Japan than in Europe. Europe’s feudalism was influenced most likely by the Roman empire and
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rise of Japanese militarism in the 1930s was due to a number of reasons. First‚ Japan’s traditional and cultural policy favoured the rise of militarism. Military tradition of samurai made it easy for the Japanese to accept militarists as leaders. Bushido which promoted martial spirit and good qualities of samurai made the Japanese believe that militarists were more reliable than the corrupt party politicians. The Japanese inclination of unquestioned obedience to authority also favoured
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when Clementine Paddleford of the New York Herald Tribune gave it a rave review. The Beatles and Muhammad Ali were among the celebrities who then descended on the four-table restaurant.[6] Within a year Aoki opened a bigger restaurant that featured Samurai armour‚ heavy wooden ceiling beams and sliding Shoji screens to provide some privacy. In 1968 it opened its first restaurant outside of New York City in Chicago. Aoki brought in consultant Hardwicke Companies (its founder Charles H. Stein was the
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decisions are made as a whole by the boss and his senior executives. Japanese are not born into their positions; instead they are recruited by talent scouts. In addition‚ glorify their symbols through tattoos. Specifically a samurai because they believe they are modern day samurais. They operate in the same business‚ but they have clothes ties with the banking industry. They are much more relatable to their counterparts in
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