• The Sengoku period (1467 - 1573) started with and continued after the Onin War. The Sengoku period is described to be what historians call a century and a half of civil war in japan which started in the middle 15th to the early 17th centuries. The sengoku period started during the 14th century when chaos spread throughout japan‚ this was because the power of the Ashikaga shogunate had almost declined completely and the shugo (governors chosen by the Shogun to supervise one or more of the provinces
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Gender Construction of The Roles of Women in Japanese Society from 1800 to 1930 Mohammed Rizvi History Seminar: Gender and Culture in Modern Japan Dr. Donald Roden December 12‚ 2012 Introduction Since the 1800’s‚ Japan shows an enriching history that displays its growth in government and gender ideologies. In 1868‚ the Meiji era shifted Japan from feudalism in the Tokugawa era to a more modern state. Also‚ the Taisho era in 1912 continued Japan’s journey to modernity by adopting more
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Christianity began to make its presence known in Japan towards the end of the Muromachi era. It was the Portuguese who first led the European maritime explorations during the fifteenth century down the Cape of Good Hope and touched India in 1498. Fifteen years later‚ they reached China‚ where they created a permanent trading station in Macao in 1559 (Varley 143). Portuguese traders first set foot on Japanese soil around 1543; they landed on the small island of Tanegashima off of the coast of Kyushu
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judgment between cultures is a necessity. The main example that she uses to justify her case is that without moral judgment‚ we would not be able to express disapproval of the ancient Samurai custom where they evaluate the effectiveness of a new sword by slicing an innocent passerby into halves with a single stroke. Samurais would justify this action by saying that passerby’s give consent to be sliced. She claims that people who don’t believe in morally judging others are considered moral isolationists
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During 1750-1900 Russia and Japan both getting a late start to industrialization face similar as well as complete differences due to the process. Compared to Russia‚ Japan was able to seperate themselves from Asian persuasian ans survive as a strong independent nation‚ and still lock down raw materials from Korea. Russia had been able to control a warm-water port and actually expand into Asia and Europe. Both nations had developed so that they were able to avoid dominaion by the west. One similarity
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world ’s largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959. The brand extension that I am proposing will be a new motorcycle marketed to the public as a green environmentally friendly motorcycle. The bike will be known as the “Honda Ronin”. A Ronin was a samurai who had no lord or master. I like the name because it goes with the whole biker outlaw mentality. The latest market trends have the public demanding more environmentally friendly products at an affordable price. The problem with most Hybrid products
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drone-like world around him. Whenever real life becomes too oppressive‚ Sam fantasizes (to the tune of Ary Baroso’s 1930s hit “Brazil”) about sailing through the clouds as a winged superhero‚ and rescuing beautiful Jill Layton (Kim Greist) from a giant‚ Samurai warrior. When a “bug falls into a computer that controls everything in the "real" world it malfunctions‚ causing an innocent citizen to be arrested and tortured to death. When Sam routinely investigates the error‚ he runs into literally the girl
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The responses of China and Japan towards western penetration in the nineteenth century were completely different. The Chinese were absolutely against it and became an isolated nation. This was different that the Japanese who viewed it as somewhat of a challenge and accepted it. The initial response from the Chinese towards western penetration was the practice of isolationism. The country resisted the West and it’s modern concepts and cut off contact with them completely. This hurt the economy
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societies‚ public and private. In private‚ in their family role‚ women quite often dominate the male members of the household‚ because the women usually dedicated to their families. But in public‚ due to the two old philosophies‚ Confucianism‚ and Samurai‚ both of them were discriminatory towards women‚ and thought women need to obey men‚ so women were the low level in traditional Japanese society. Women could not have own property‚ could not read political and business transactions or great literary
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Bentley Chapter 14 Study Guide: The Resurgence of Empire in East Asia Eyewitness: Xuangzang: A Young Monk Hits the Road (p. 281-282) 1. Who was Xuangzang‚ what was the purpose of his travels‚ and what was the impact of his travels? The Restoration of Centralized Imperial Rule in China The Sui Dynasty: Establishment of the Dynasty (p. 282) 2. How were the Sui rulers similar to the Qin dynasty? Give examples of what Sui rulers did. The Sui Dynasty: The Grand Canal (p. 282-283)
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