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... By fading away from traditional religion and culture, Japan will continue to adopt
western culture and form a new, blended culture, as it has in the past. ...
Culture of Japan. Japan was founded in 600 BC by the Emperor Jimmu, the
ancestor of the current imperial line. The writing system ...
... Though old culture in Japan is waning due to the younger generation?s objective
opinion of religion, Japanese people can blend the fundamental doctrine and ...
Japan's Culture of Suicide. Japan?s Culture ... family. This is a dark side
of the culture that Japan does not like to talk about. In a ...
the role change of Japan's culture. The ... economy. It is safe to assume that the
young culture in Japan is going through an identity crisis!
Submitted by T_BOAN_69 on March 2, 2007
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Japan was founded in 600 BC by the Emperor Jimmu, the ancestor of the current imperial line. The writing system of Japan and China however was not officially adopted until 405 AD. The Japanese Culture usually had a ruling dynasty, but real power was held by powerful nobles, regents, or “shoguns”. Japan was first contacted in 1542 by a Portuguese explorer headed for China. After that Japan traded with many cultures until the early part of the 17th century. Japan\'s shogunate suspected that the traders and missionaries were actually forerunners of a military conquest by European powers. The result was foreigners were placed under tight restrictions. Shortly after, Japan forced all foreigners to leave and isolated itself for 200 years. This isolation lasted for 200 years, until Commodore Matthew Perry of the U.S. Navy forced the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854. After contact was re-established to the western world, Japan’s shogun system was replaced by the emperor Meiji during the \"Meiji restoration\" of 1868 which initiated many reforms. By 1898, the last of the \"unequal treaties\" with Western powers was removed, signaling Japan\'s new status among the nations of the world. In a few decades, by creating modern social, educational, economic, military, and industrial systems, the Emperor Meiji\'s \"controlled revolution\" had transformed a feudal and isolated state into a world power.
Japan has been involved in several wars including a war with Russia and participation in World War I and II. During World War I, Japan sided with the allies and its influence spread through the western world after the Allies won. During the years preceding WWII, the Japanese resigned from the “league of nations”, invaded china, and signed a pact with Nazi Germany. The Japanese invasion of China in 1937 followed Japan\'s signing of the \"anti-COM intern pact\" with Nazi Germany which culminated in the Japanese attack on the...
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