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Japan

Japan. Political Culture. Homogeneity Uniqueness Isolation Borrowing Geography Communitarian Adaptability/Organizational skills Emperor Power is behind the scenes. 1. Homogeneity. 98% Japanese Korean and Chinese minority Status of Burakumin. 2. Uniqueness 3. Isolation

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  1. Japan

  2. Political Culture • Homogeneity • Uniqueness • Isolation • Borrowing • Geography • Communitarian • Adaptability/Organizational skills • Emperor • Power is behind the scenes

  3. 1. Homogeneity • 98% Japanese • Korean and Chinese minority • Status of Burakumin

  4. 2. Uniqueness 3. Isolation From: 1600/1638 To: 1853

  5. 4. Borrowing Japanese spin Tradition on foreign ideas “Japanification” foreign ideas

  6. 5. Geography From: Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, http://tochi.mlit.go.jp/h19hakusho/set_0_eng.htm

  7. 6. Communitarian Individualistic? “The squeaky wheel gets the grease.” Communitarian? “The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.” The role of geography and economics

  8. 7. Adaptability and Organizational Skills Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry data from: http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/challenge/energy/nuclear/p-necess-e.html

  9. 8. Emperor • First Emperor, Jimmu Tenno (660-585 BC), • Great, Great, Great, Grandson of Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess, • National Foundation Day: Feb 11

  10. Tanaka Kakuei LDP, 1960s-1980s Ozawa Ichiro DPJ, 1990s-present 9. Power behind the Scenes

  11. Periods of History • 10th-17th: Feudal Japan • 1600-1868 Tokugawa Era • 1868 Meiji Restoration • 1920s-1940s: • Institutionalists vs. Nationalists

  12. 1. Feudal Japan From: Government of Saskatchewan, 7th Grade Curriculum, http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/midlsoc/gr7/74handouts1.html

  13. Nitobe Inazo, Bushido: The Soul of Japan, 1908 Samurai Class

  14. Centralization Grows: Shogun • Oda Nobunaga 1568-1582 • Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1582-1598 • Unified Japan 1590 • 1598: Tokugawa shogunate vs. Mitsunari shogunate

  15. Battle of Sekigahara, 1600

  16. Sekigahara Action Figure

  17. 2. Tokugawa Era: 1600-1868

  18. Tokugawa Era • Isolation • Centralized Feudalism • Emperor?

  19. Samurai of 1860s

  20. 3. Meiji Restoration • End of isolation • Restoration and revolution • Birth of Modern Japan

  21. 1853 US Navy in Tokyo Bay Treaty of Kanagawa, March 31, 1854

  22. Meiji Restoration:Emperor Mutsuhito 1852-1912 Meiji Era: 1867-1912 (enlightened rule)

  23. The Restoration • 1889 Constitution • Article 1. The Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal. • Article 3. The Emperor is sacred and inviolable. • Article 4. The Emperor is the head of the Empire, combining in Himself the rights of sovereignty... • Article 11. The Emperor has the supreme command of the Army and Navy.

  24. Sino-Japanese War 1894-5 Treaty Of Shimonoseki Russo-Japanese War 1904-5 Treaty of Portsmouth Power and Expansion

  25. 4. Nationalism and War • Ultranationalists vs. Institutionalists • Washington Naval Treaty 1922 • London Naval Treaty 1930 • 1931 Manchuria (Manchukuo)

  26. Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

  27. December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor

  28. May 1945 Tokyo Firebombing

  29. Tokyo after the Attacks

  30. Hiroshima August 6, 1945

  31. After the bomb

  32. Nagasaki August 9, 1945

  33. Post-War Japanese Government • Surrender, Occupation and Punishment • US-Japan Security Treaty, 1951 (1952) Japanese Foreign Minister Shigemitsu Mamoru Signing the surrender Agreement, 9/2/45

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