Japan is geographically described as having 47 prefectures, with 4 distinct main islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu. The distance separating Korea and Kyushu is only 200 km while the distance separating Hokkaido and Sakhalin is only 40 km. The formation of the Japanese civilization is said to have begun in the Jomon Period (7,000 BC to 250 BC), and is described as a Prehistoric and Neolithic Period. The Japanese as a race consists of different origins. These include the Ainu, Mongolians, Hans, Fins, Kumaso and a large immigration of Koreans and Chinese from 300 AD to 700 AD (Riley, 2000).
The Japanese Culture is one that is distinct and ethnocentric. Any military force (the U.S. occupation was considered too civilized) has never successfully invaded them. They have also never produced any great philosophers. The Japanese also tends to be beneficiaries rather than benefactors. Japanese race is largely homogenous and is clearly absent of any ethnic minorities (Riley, 2000). .
The Japanese also have the longest surviving monarchical system in history (Meyer, 1993). This goes back to the mythical Jimmu Tenno, who was directly related to the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami, the most important goddess in the Japanese religion, Shinto (Varley, 1971). All Emperors have been descendants of the same imperial family. The Tenno's symbols of office were three regalia; a bronze mirror, curved jewel, and an iron sword, which were a gift from the Sun Goddess through her great grandson Ninigi-no-Mikoto (Varley, 1971). With these three regalia the Sun Goddess also delivered the following statement: "Whenever thou lookest upon this mirror, thou shalt regard it as my own image. And, for centuries, shall my descendants rule this land of Toyoashiwara-no-Mizuho-no-Kuni (the old name of Japan). Thou shalt now reign over it, and thy line of sovereignty shall prosper co-eternally with Heaven and Earth" (Unknown author, 1928).
The dominant ethinic group is the Japanese, a Mongoloid people. ... Written Japanese is complex, being derived from Chinese. The Kato dailect, spoken in the Tokyo area, is considered standard spoken japanese. ... Japan produces a wide range of metallic minerals. ... Japan is a constitutional monarchy, with a hereditary empreror and a parlimentary system of the government. ...
When the Japanese surrendered, General Douglas MacArthur lead the US occuption of Japan. ... He then turned his focus to the democratization of Japan. ... It changed the government to a constitutional monarchy, leaving the divine emperor of Japan with no power. ... The US remained in Japan for six months, because Japan had no military. After the war Japan and the USA became allies. ...
However, more attention is probably devoted to the Revolution of 1917 because it did mark the end of the Russian monarchy. ... In January of 1904, Japan attacked the Russian fleet in the east, launching Russia into war. The Russo-Japanese war cost each side about 450,000 lives and caused Russia to suffer a loss of prestige both at home and abroad. ... Nicholas also set up a unified executive branch and ended the war with Japan. The post-1905 monarchy was a completely different monarchy; it was now subject to a constitution. ...
Another reason I thought researching Japan would be beneficial is because of the noted health and industrial advances made by Japan since the second world war. ... The economy of Japan is bases around the 67.7 million working Japanese who contribute to this powerful economy. ... The people who make up the nation of Japan live in what is called a constitutional monarchy. This is a system of government in which the people are protected by a constitution and the leader of the government comes from the family in control of the monarchy. The country has been a monarchy since its founding in 66...
This intense period of modernization gained the respect that Japan demanded, and also made Japan a feared nation. The Japanese political structure in 1900 was based on the Prussian style, Constitutional monarchy. ... Japan's industrial and economy growth was one of the most successful ever seen. ... This therefore displayed Japan's imperialistic strengths, and also began to instill fear into countries such as Russia, due to Japan's military strength's. ... Britain became allies with Japan in the 1902, this move greatly complimented the Japanese army, and was a large fac...
From 1185 to 1868 the Samurai was the premier warrior of the Japanese. ... Throughout Japan you see examples of beauty. ... The Japanese monarchy has been the spiritual and temporal focus of the Japanese people for over four thousand years. ... Yet during this transformation, Japan did not lose its cultural beauty. There has been a resurgence of the old art forms in modern Japanese culture. ...
In 1945, August 6th the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the City of Hiroshima in Japan. ... Was the U.S. justified in using the atomic bomb against Japan? ... The U.S. would have gone into Japan. ... Japan would have continued to fight the war, and this would have taken much longer. ... According to long time historian Barton Bernstein "Taken together, some of these alternatives [to dropping the atomic bomb] - promising to retain the Japanese monarchy, awaiting the soviets" entry and even more conventional bombing very probably could have ended the war before the dread...
Background Japan is an island nation located in northeastern Asia between the north Pacific and the Sea of Japan. ... Most of Japanese reside in urban area. Japan is a constitutional monarchy governed under the constitution of 1947 by a Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, and his cabinet. ... Japan is classified one of the "mostly free " economies. ... The world's eyes are upon Asia, especially Japan. ...
Born January 31st, 1935 in Ose, a remote mountain village on the smallest of Japan's major islands, Kenzaburo Oe was only 6-years-old when the United States declared war on Japan after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor (Shelton, Sonya par.2). ... After the war, the Americans took control of all Japanese education and taught the children about democracy, Oe agreed with the Americans' ideas more than the monarchy based ideas and values of Japan. ... When he was young his grandmother told him the legends of the Japanese culture. ... The book describes how the young boys were brought up and the ...
