... school and study more than students in most other countries. The school year lasts for 240 days and each school day is very long. Furthermore, most students go to "cram schools" to study even more after the regular school day is over. This is all in preparation for the college entrance exam (Morton, 251-255). Some people have also said that ... the two share causes them to mesh well. Christianity is also present in Japan, but only about 1% of the total population is of the Christian faith. In spite of the low percentage of Japanese Christians, many people have Christian weddings in Japa...

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... of the West. As Western interest began to increase in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Japanese authorities became concerned at the possibility of Western political interference, the effects of Christian thinking on the feudal system, and the threat of invasion. As a result the shogun issued the Seclusion Decrees (1638) that instituted two hundred years of isolation from the West. No ... Europeans were allowed into Japan although the Dutch were permitted to maintain a small presence in Nagasaki on the island of Deshima. Christian converts either had to renounce their faith o...

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