... the country's survival in the modern era. The modernization and reform focused primarily in the areas of industry, government and education, and Japan was determined to catch up and eventually surpass the western nations . "Indeed the first 2 decades of the Emperor Meiji's reign saw a Japan to all appearances intoxicated with the strong wine of Western thought, technique and custom" -Richard Storry 1969, A ... known as the "Zaibatsu" (private companies) The Zaibatsu remained the main driving force for Japans economy and provided the ground work for the rebuilding of Japan after its def...

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... ranks seventh in the world following in order China, India, the United States, Indonesia, Brazil and Russia. As in other industrial countries, Japan's population growth has slowed in recent years despite a steady decrease in the death rate. The government fears fewer babies - births are down to an all-time low of 1.39 per woman. This will mean a less prosperous, more ... a free two-year lease on a new minivan; this is one of the more unusual incentives being offered by authorities, desperate to increase Japan's plunging birthrate. (Chiyoda 2000) In an apocalyptic projection illustrating...

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... independence from European control because they came out of isolation while China was controlled by the west due to their traditionalist government corrupting the economy which made it easy for the Europeans to control, and different due to Japan being able to maintain political and thus economic vigor through the 20th century while China fell into disastrous conditions politically and thus ... behind the West due to the West having superior technology and wealth. Also, Japan needed raw materials that were required to industrialize. Japanese government came out of isolation because in ...

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... to foreign domination was quite different. China was more focused on getting rid of the white imperialists as soon as possible through violence. Japan on the other hand did not show as much resistance, instead it adopted the ideas and technologies of the at that time superior ... opium from India into China. The use of opium took off like a rocket in China, soon it became a serious issue for the Chinese government, which then instituted measures to try and stop it. This decision eventually led to two Opium Wars, China was no match for British military ... converting Japanese into Christi...

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... identity) through isolation rather than self preservation through adaptation would leave China a victim, such as the many others before for them. On the other side of the spectrum, Japan was much more accepting of western influence, and as history would show, their outcome to imperialism and colonialism was more successful than their counterparts. During the seventeenth and eighteenth ... powers. The Meiji sent out officials to Europe and the United States to learn technologies, politics, economics, agriculture and military all of which was turned over quickly to modernized Japan. The g...

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... calamities as well as hoarding of goods by the supplier. On the other hand an increase in demand is mainly caused by increase in government expenditure, increase in private expenditure, increase in consumer spending as a results of modern-day credit purchases, reduction in taxes, governments repaying their ... and fiscal policy, to encourage economic growth, as well as a target with the Bank of Japan to target inflation at 2% together with Quantitative Easing methods-the excessive buying of bonds by the government. Effects were imminent, the Japanese Yen weakened,stock prices shot up 22% ...

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... cost billions of dollars and expend thousands upon thousands of soldiers lives. It also would have forced the U.S to unite with Russia in a campaign against Japan. Since the U.S and U.S.S.R were frightened of each other at the time, complying with each others ideas and strategies would've proved to be impossible. ... Atomic bombs killed 210,000 people by the end of the 1945. Truman inherited a huge undertaking when he was sworn into the presidency. A secret government project was already in effect, code named the Manhattan Project. This was a huge project that employed 129,000 people. Th...

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... the empire by foreign economic and political interests. On the other hand Japan had a whole different answer to the Western nation's pressure. Unlike the Chinese they did not have huge revolts that endangered the government but they tried to improve themselves as much as they could throughout the ... 19th century. During the first half of the 19th century the shogunate continued to combine a central bureaucracy with semifeudal alliances. But the government ran into financial problems. A long budget reform spurt in the late 18th century with small results. This weakened the shogunate by ...

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... high life expectancy and declining birth rates. Population ageing is progressing rapidly in many industrialized countries including more economically developed countries (MEDC). Introducing Japan's population, there are nearly 2 million citizens that are over the age of 65. At present, under 15% of the Japanese population ... Japan into the Ageing Population era, the economy holds a great deal towards the population and seems to be the main problem. As mentioned before, there are millions of elderly within the country, therefore, the expenses to pay for the elderly population are much ne...

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... which the Western world has been built. Democratization, globalization, industrialization and ongoing modernization are fundamental concepts that have contributed to the modern worlds of both the United States and Japan. Nonetheless, it can also be said that, although both of these societies are built upon similar foundations, differing cultural characteristics and the way in which societal structures are organized ... role of the father." Oyabun-kobun relationships, as well as the amae mindset and the pyramidal structural organization of the ie system, combine to help make Japan a polit...

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... is from Western influence. Graphic art is extremely popular in Japan dating back to the 7th and 8th century when Buddhism was the first connection to complex art in Japan. The arts changed after each change in government or each loss in war. Colors also play a major ... influence in Japanese Culture. For Example, the color yellow was used as a pledge of courage. The color white means to mourn. The Japanese have many artists, which have helped structure art to the way it is today. The Japanese are also legendary for their performing arts which is extremely popular in Japan ... from other ...

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... their lesson by losing almost all of their respect in a matter of years. (www.fsmitha.com/index.html) In the year 1937, Japan made its first tragic mistake by electing a new leader and government. Before they signed Prince Fumimaro Konoe, Japan was working to sign a peace treaty with their neighboring rivals, China. But on July 8, Japanese were throwing a party eight miles west of ... Peiping, China. Soon, Chinese troops started firing bullets and a huge war erupted between the two forces. For years afterwards, the two fought and Japan, after rebuilding the economy, was ... probably th...

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... democratic franchise during the 19th Century. Similar parliamentary systems came into existence in states like Germany, Sweden, India, Japan, New Zealand, and Australia. The central feature of these systems is a fusion of legislative and executive power, that government is parliamentary in that it is drawn from the assembly or parliament. The strength of this system is that it ... these high expectations. Certainly, there are examples such as Sweden in which the assembly (the Riksdag) exerts a strong policy influence without threatening to immobilise the workings of government. However,...

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... . In doing this, the oligarchy encourages Japanese experts to study Western systems. The aim was to find the best models to copy for Japan's modernisation. Military strength was imperative for the government control over the nation and protecting themselves from the West. The new navy was modelled on British lines and was made up of the former shogun's fleet with ... number of industries emerged that marked the nation's entry to a period of industrial growth. With industrialisation under way, attention was turned to modernising Japan's political system. Some of the Meiji leaders believed...

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... this determination that was the cause of drastic reforms and lead the country to become an imperialistic nation while the whole time fighting off the imperialistic nations. The new government aimed to make Japan a state focused on equality among its people. The social classes of the previous Tokugawa era were broken down over time as well as the samurai loosing most of ... divide it into prefectures. After the intense westernization took place the country had to catch up militaristically. This, being a high priority for Japan, the government introduced a universal conscription of a new ...

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... that they were ready to surrender. This team concluded that the dropping of the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima was in no way necessary. This proves that the United States government was aware that Japan had no way out except through their surrender. "During his recitation of the relevant facts, I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief ... and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons"" (Admiral William D. Leahy, I Was There, 441). Another reason Truman and the American government felt that Japan sh...

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... expand its influence in Asia and its territorial holdings in the Pacific. Acting virtually independently of the civil government, the Japanese navy seized Germany's Micronesian colonies. ii. Post WWII International trade and industry was a very powerful influence in Japanese government 1950-1970. It made Japan a centrally-managed economy, funding research and directing investment . " MITI was created with the split of the ... still recovering from World War II. " With inflation rising and productivity failing to keep up, the government sought a better mechanism for reviving the Japanese...

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... the birth rate to an average of 1.38 for each woman in 1998, and 1.32 in 2002.(Asiasource.org-Special Report: Japan's Aging Population Challenge for its Economy and Society) This particular strategy, inflicted by the government, has impacted the demographics of Japan, considerably, and has increased their life expectancy to 76.4 for men and 82.8 for women, the highest in the world ... in the near future. The idea of population control has been a slow, but effective method, implemented by the government of recent years of Japan. It has so far enabled a controlled population, geared towar...

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... heavy industrial plants around the Yalu River in what is now North Korea. The Japanese to facilitate and manage the industrialization of a colony also put in place a strong central government. Although Japan's colonial industrialism in Korea was aimed at advancing Japanese policies and goals and not those of the Korean populace; colonization left Korea with distinct advantages over other developing countries at ... the end of World War Two. Korea was left with a base for industrializing, a high level of literacy, experience with modern commerce, and close ties to Japan. Japan's colonial...

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... a few equivalents. Even though hikikomori is a large problem for the future of Japan as a nation, the country has done minimal work to fix this problem. In Japan, hikikomori have been thought as outcasts who and thus far have been treated as outcasts, with no support from the government. The only support for hikikomori comes from some community groups which run sessions to ... own living. I believe that Hikikomori needs to be fixed by the Japanese government as it is a major problem for the future of Japan. I propose that the current support programs provided by community groups should ...

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... This is a balance of wealth which exceeds even U.S. standards (www.libraryofcongress.org.) As of the year 2000 the yearly Gross Domestic Product for Japan was $3.15 trillion and the average per capita income was $24,900. The unemployment rate was around four percent of those looking for work and ... vegetables (www.worldbank.org.) The island of Japan has also become known around the world for its peoples healthfulness and longevity. The average Japanese lives to be around 80.9 years of age, easily the highest in the world. Healthcare in Japan is all government financed and is free to al...

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... strong opinion on how to stop unemployment so that their nation could recover from the Great Depression. They both wanted the nation to get involved because the government could not do it alone. Great Britain wanted to use the resources that they already had to open new markets to the world. This would allow ... we come to the next two nations we realize that more jobs and more government help seem to not be so important to the leaders of Germany and Japan. Germany is more concerned with building up the armies and using the government's expenditures on the funding of the army and gettin...

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... had driven the Imperial Navy from the ocean and planes of the fast carrier forces were striking Japanese naval bases in the Inland Sea. . . Clearly Japan was a defeated nation."1 The decision to use the atomic bomb was validated by the U.S., who said that the force was necessary to end the war, ... being quite ignorant. For example, the atomic bomb was tested in Trinity Site, New Mexico, USA. It was viewed by the media, U.S. government officials and the military. Viewing the destruction firsthand should have convinced the United States that nuclear power was a real and tangible danger. ...

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... , Soviet and French control. In eastern Europe, Rumania, Hungary, and Bulgaria (which had been allies of Germany) were placed under Soviet control. British and American forces occupied Italy. In Asia, Japan was occupied mainly by American forces; Korea, by the American and the Soviet Union; and Manchuria, by Soviet and Chinese forces. The Paris Peace Conference, 1946 Draft treaties were presented ... not recognise each other's sovereignty until 1973. The Peace treaty with Austria Like Germany, Austria was divided into four occupied zones. Unlike Germany, however, it was allowed its own c...

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... "intelligent" stimulus-responsive materials, the construction of new "perfect" materials designed down to the atomic level, "nanobots", and general purpose assemblers. Japan at present is not emphasizing nanotechnology research per se in the same way the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) earlier carried out ... public sector nanotechnology projects seem to have started to shift towards the biotechnology side. This may be due to the fact that the government feels the private sector (in this case the electronics companies) has picked up the research ball in the area of q...

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