... and legal system and by fighting and winning two wars, The Sino - Japanese War in 1894, and The Russo - Japanese War 1904 - 1905, Japan had established full independence and equality in international affairs. In a little more than a generation, Japan had exceeded its goals, and in the process had changed its ... to evolve under the Meiji constitution, but then is unable to meet the dual changes of economic depression and the political power of the Japanese military leaders in the 1920's and 1930's. This eventually led to Japan requiring more resources, and then the attack to Pearl Harbor ...

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... of his own aspirations and perhaps it is this own reality that drives him to his eventual end. He sees the best men of his generation mining coal and pulling rickshaws, he sees Western "civilization" forcing them to work jobs they hate to buy stuff they don't need, he ... sees, in short, the destruction of an idealized traditional Japanese culture by a very different west. Part of Akutagawa undoubtedly wants to view the Westerners influence upon Japan as immoral and corrupt, yet he sees ... be the late theme of Japan and its artistic community; the Meiji Restoration turned Japan every ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate