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History: In early Japan, most people were gathers, hunters, and fishers. The agriculture of rice, brought about the development of social hierarchy and hundereds of small countries that started to form larger countries from 300BCE to 300. From 300 to 580, Japan was more or less unified, and kofuns, or tombs, started to be built for the deceased emperors. From 538-710, Buddhism was introduced.Prince Shotoku's Constitution of the seventeen articles was progumlated. In 710, Nara becomes the first capital. In 784, the capital moves to Nagaoka.
In 1185, the Minamoto family took over the control over Japan after defeating the Taira clan. Minamoto Yoritomo was appointed shogun in the year 1192 and established a new government, the Kamakura Bakufu. The new feudal government was organized in a simpler way than the one in Kyoto and worked much more efficient under Japanese conditions.
Chinese influence continued to be relatively strong during the Kamakura period. New Buddhist sects were introduced: the Zen sect (introduced 1191) found large numbers of followers among the samurai, which were now the leading social class. Another new sect , the radical Lotus Sutra sect was founded in 1253 by Nichiren. By 1259, the Mongols had conquered China and became also interested in Japan. Several threatening messages of the powerful Mongols were ignored by Kamakura. This resulted in the first Mongol invasion attempt in 1274 on the island of Kyushu. After only a few hours of fighting, the naval invasion fleet, was forced to pull back because of bad weather conditions. The mongols attempted a second invaion, yet bad weather conditions forced them to retreat again.
World War I :
In the First World War, Japan joined the Allied powers, but played only a minor role in fighting German colonial forces in East Asia. At the following Paris Peace Conference of 1919, Japan's proposal of amending a "racial equality clause" to the League of Nations was rejected by the United States, Britain and Australia. Arrogance and racial discrimination towards the Japanese had plagued Japanese-Western relations since the forced opening of the country in the 1800s, and were again a major factor for the deterioration of relations in the decades preceeding World War 2. In 1924, for example, the US Congress passed the Exclusion Act that prohibited further immigration from Japan.
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Really quite informative Hannah.
Very good. I agree. No one talks about Japan like you do. : ) |
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Hannah, no one talks about Japan like you do. :]
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