... clothing (Little Star Enterprises Inc. n.d). The quality of the clothing someone wore depended heavily on their wealth/class. Samurai armour developed massively over time and was influenced by the ancient Chinese armour. The armour can be categorised by their construction in three groups: scale, lamellar and full-plate armours. Ancient armours were made using scales and lamellae and adapted from the ... schools. The samurai training was directed by the older male members of the family. Wealthier families were more likely to attend academies where the boy studied the literature, arts and...

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... is therefore used a propellant in a variety of thinks like ammunition. It is also used in explosives for blasting operations, fireworks and fuses in slightly different forms. Gunpowder has had a unique history since its discovery in the early 1100's. Gunpowder comes in many forms from a dirty burning black powder to a smokeless variety of powders. Gunpowder has been used for a number of things ... the last 900 years for a variety of things ranging from recreational uses to military warfare. The first people to acquire knowledge of the explosive properties of gunpowder were the early Chi...

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... believe all forms of karate come from Japan and fail to realize that different styles are from different places. Each style also has it's own history and traditions but most agree that modern karate styles began in the same place with the teachings of a Buddhist monk named Bodhidharma. Bodhidharma traveled ... either on the Japanese mainland or on the island of Okinawa. But history shows that the teachings of Bodhidharma spread to other parts of China and Asia before arriving in Japan. It was the travels of the Chinese monks that brought karate to Okinawa and the people of this tiny isl...

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Japan is one of the world's leading industrial and trading nations to develop a technologically advanced industrial economy. It is a small country compared with such nations as the United States. The dominant ethinic group is the Japanese, a Mongoloid people. The Japanese have developed a culture that was strongly influenced between the 3d and 10th century. Spoken Japanese was a long considered a unique language but now is now known to bear a strong association with Korean. Written Japanese is complex, being derived from Chinese. The Kato dailect, spoken in the Tokyo area, is considered standa...

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... way of American-tutored life upon their return to their homeland. However, many of them did not return. That is how Chicago's American Filipino history began. During the Meiji period, Japan sent their most talented men to learn the best of everything from dominant countries. Many of the original Chicago ... under the Immigration Act of 1965, known as the Hart-Celler Act. Separate Asian communities exist in the Chicago area today. You"ll find Chinese, Filipinos, and Koreans living on Devon in the uptown neighborhood and Chinatown. These communities live harmoniously and within close prox...

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... was a major influence on both Chinese and Japanese history, key political and social circumstances led to the rise and rapid decline of Buddhism in China, while it remained a dominant religion in Japan. There are many political and social reasons that help explain why the period of history in China between 500 and 1200 ... the Song Dynasty led to Buddhism's rapid fall. Buddhism was able to come to China because at that point of time in history during the Sui, China was not unified. "The new faith spread slowly at first, but then began to appeal more widely as the political ... At this t...

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... refer the Japanese people. Waenom means "small person", which shows that the Koreans did not look at the Japanese the way they saw the Chinese. After invading Korea in the early 1900s, the Japanese started calling the Koreans "Chosenjing Bagayaro" Which meant, "stupid Chosen people". The Japanese ... around the world. The Japanese Educational Board had accepted Japanese history books which the Asian Historian Committee denied. The History book, which was distributed all across Japanese High schools, had about 75 mistakes, which were not fixed. When the Chinese and the Koreans demanded t...

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... steam. China no longer boasted a large portion of world production, a terrible drought had severely impacted the land, and rapidly growing empires surrounding the Chinese nations began to spring up. The ideals of Christianity and Western styles were pushing themselves into China's borders, to their dismay. Both Japan and Korea ... the Qing Dynasty, is what made the Japanese start acting instead of consulting Korean reformers. As part of one of the biggest rebellions in history, Koreans wanted to pursue different religious journeys. On August 1st, 1894, war was declared between China and ...

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Chinese and Japanese religion, have a lot of history behind them. The three most formal traditions are Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism. These three things make up China's traditions. There are different ... harmony in ones life. Mainly finding yourself and finding out what you mean to yourself. In China, Buddhist has founded schools. For example they founded "The Chinese Buddhist School of Chan". Buddhism emphasizes rituals and religious practices are relevant to life in the world. Buddhism has no caste system, but is known as a ... as well in the Unites States of America, Canada, Tibet, a...

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... copied the Soviets one-party system with Mao holding the positions of president of the republic, head of the People's Liberation Army. During the 1950's major reforms altered Chinese society as well as the state. New laws introduced included the confiscation of the land belonging to landlords and giving it to individual families. These lands were given for ... a time, to the farmers for their own benefit and rural collectivization was deferred until later. By 1956 however things had changed and the entire Chinese economy was under state control. China then endured Mao's Great Leap forwar...

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... is a very old and intricate nation. In this paper I will not even begin to scratch the surface when it comes to talking about the Japanese expansive history but I am hoping to give a little insight into their past. According to the U.S. Department of State the population of Japan in 2001 was 126.8 million ... Japan can harbor almost four times the amount of people of California and still manage as well as they do. Politics have changed greatly in Japan's long history. When a nation is as old as Japan (around 600 BCE) it has to go through many changes, a flux if you will, over time ... ...

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... of religious oppression and economics. Between 1891 and 1900 3.5 million people arrived. Out of 3.5 million people only a little more than half were new immigrants. The greatest decade in United States history for immigration was 1901 to 1910. During that decade nearly 8.8 MILLION people arrived in America. Out of all those new immigrants, more than 70 percent were from the southern and ... wasn't until the discovery of gold in 1848 that California started to grow. Because of the gold rush people needed laborers to help build the transcontinental railroad, thus spurring the Chinese immi...

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... cannot be taught, it has to be experienced. One of the basic beliefs of Zen Buddhism is that "Buddha nature is in all people and that it is perfect". The history of Zen, its different schools, Zen arts and Zen gardens had a great influence on the Western culture during the twentieth century and has now become the most popular and influential ... as "Ch"an" and in Japan as "Wu". During the Tang dynasty and Sung dynasty (618-906), known as the golden age of China, Zen was widely supported by the Chinese government and was popular among all classes of people in China. Ch"an was carried to ...

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... cannot be taught, it has to be experienced. One of the basic beliefs of Zen Buddhism is that "Buddha nature is in all people and that it is perfect". The history of Zen, its different schools, Zen arts and Zen gardens had a great influence on the Western culture during the twentieth century and has now become the most popular and influential ... as "Ch"an" and in Japan as "Wu". During the Tang dynasty and Sung dynasty (618-906), known as the golden age of China, Zen was widely supported by the Chinese government and was popular among all classes of people in China. Ch"an was carried to ...

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... population; also eventually leading to the development of main and side dishes which could be enjoyed and not seen just as a way to survive. One might think that given its history and pre-existing influence on America, Japan cooking would be as easily identified as its video games and animation. Sadly, that isn't the case. Countless times, I have strolled through the ... food courts of malls only to witness countless people walking up to the counters of Japanese food booths and order what they think is Chinese. A specific case of this occurred during the summer vacation of 2003 while ou...

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... such a weak position, not only did the United States ask for them to surrender, but so did the British and Chinese governments. Japan refusing to surrender at this time is what caused the United States to use a bomb that would change history forever. On August 6th, a single American plane flew over, and dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, destroying nearly 60% of ... "." The effect this bomb had on people was far greater than the B-29 bomber attacks, simply due to the fact that not only was this attack a significant part of war history, but the effects caused by radiation of this bomb i...

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... War II. I do not want to tell that old Japan have stayed changeless, not at all, because there will never be new Japan that has lost its connection with the history. Rober Gillen, Paris, 1961 Does Japan become western orientated? Enticing, mysterious, and still not fully discovered - that is Japan - the country of a rising sun. In its ... history flow Japan has undertaken Chinese writing, Korean writing and after all Western technologies, dress, and fast-food. Ten percent from the words you can here each day are borrowed from English. At the same time ... ...

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The Muromachi era encompasses the fourteenth and fifteenth century in Japan. It is a long misunderstood and neglected period of Japanese history by both foreign historians and Japanese historians (Hall, 2). It has long been regarded as culturally important but not historically and politically important (Hall, 2). Many historians felt it was a period when ... the Japanese attempted to emulate the past and because of this they were successful culturally (Hall, 2). Its poor standing with historians led to it being neglected in history books and to a belief that there was no source material avai...

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... U.S. fought the Japanese to undo Japan's war-making imperialism, and in the broadest sense it was fighting for the dignity of people, which always suffers when people, such as the Chinese, are targeted by imperialism. Belatedly the United States was also fighting for China's freedom from Japanese imperialism. I wish too that it had been fighting for the freedom of the Koreans ... Chalmers Johnson. It covers Japan from 1901 into the 1990s. The book leaves me with a little work to do -- a few additional sentences about World War II to include in my history of the twentieth century....

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... world; it would become necessary to leave the old world behind. China's worldly view would perhaps be the key to their lagging assimilation of western influences. The ideology that the Chinese upheld consisted of: China is fully self-sufficient, China is superior, China is the center of the world, everybody outside of China are barbarians. With such a chauvinistic inward view and ... 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 outcom...

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... , actually a country that learned the biggest lessons would have to be Japan. During World War II and even before it, Japan made some of the biggest mistakes of any country's history by attacking some of the most powerful countries in the world. After the complete massacres they received in return, Japan most definitely learned their lesson by losing almost all of ... 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 fir...

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Throughout history there are many examples of social injustice such as the treatment of natives in the past, the hanging of Riel, or the Chinese Head Tax. Social injustice occurs when a person or group is treated with cruelty because of prejudgments, racisms, or unfounded opinions. One of the gravest forms of social injustice in Canada ... ...

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Stereotypes: the Japanese Woman. Pulitzer Prize (1990, international journalism) winning journalist, Sheryl WuDunn once described an old saying: A man is in heaven when he has an American house, a British salary, a Chinese cook and a Japanese wife. A respected journalist and expert on Asian matters, WuDunn was reporting what was and still is the stereotypical image that most masochist western men fantasize about. The ... those other decisions that are male dominated in the chauvinistic west. Any salaryman knows this reality just too well. A short walk down memory lane will reveal numerous he...

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