Japan
Political Culture 1.Homogeneity 2.Uniqueness 3.Isolation 4.Borrowing 5.Geography 6.Communitarian 7.Adaptability/Organizational skills 8.Emperor 9.Power is behind the scenes
1. Homogeneity 98% Japanese Korean and Chinese minority Status of Burakumin
2. Uniqueness 3. Isolation From: 1600/1638 To: 1853
4. Borrowing Japanese spin Traditionon foreign ideas “Japanification” foreign ideas
5. Geography From: Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport,
6. Communitarian Individualistic? “The squeaky wheel gets the grease.” Communitarian? “The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.” The role of geography and economics
7. Adaptability and Organizational Skills Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry data from:
8. Emperor First Emperor, Jimmu Tenno ( BC), Great, Great, Great, Grandson of Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess, National Foundation Day: Feb 11
9. Power behind the Scenes Tanaka Kakuei LDP, 1960s-1980s Ozawa Ichiro DPJ, 1990s-present
Periods of History 1.10 th -17 th : Feudal Japan Tokugawa Era Meiji Restoration s-1940s: –Institutionalists vs. Nationalists
1. Feudal Japan From: Government of Saskatchewan, 7 th Grade Curriculum,
Samurai Class Nitobe Inazo, Bushido: The Soul of Japan, 1908Bushido: The Soul of Japan
Centralization Grows: Shogun Oda Nobunaga Toyotomi Hideyoshi –Unified Japan 1590 –1598: Tokugawa shogunate vs. Mitsunari shogunate
Battle of Sekigahara, 1600
Sekigahara Action Figure
2. Tokugawa Era:
Tokugawa Era Isolation Centralized Feudalism Emperor?
Samurai of 1860s
3. Meiji Restoration End of isolation Restoration and revolution Birth of Modern Japan
1853 US Navy in Tokyo Bay Treaty of KanagawaTreaty of Kanagawa, March 31, 1854
Meiji Restoration: Emperor Mutsuhito Meiji Era: (enlightened rule)
The Restoration 1889 Constitution Article 1. The Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal. Article 3. The Emperor is sacred and inviolable. Article 4. The Emperor is the head of the Empire, combining in Himself the rights of sovereignty... Article 11. The Emperor has the supreme command of the Army and Navy.
Power and Expansion Sino-Japanese War Treaty Of Shimonoseki Russo-Japanese War Treaty of Portsmouth
4. Nationalism and War Ultranationalists vs. Institutionalists Washington Naval Treaty 1922 London Naval Treaty Manchuria (Manchukuo)
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor
May 1945 Tokyo Firebombing
Tokyo after the Attacks
Hiroshima August 6, 1945
After the bomb
Nagasaki August 9, 1945
Post-War Japanese Government Surrender, Occupation and PunishmentSurrender US-Japan Security Treaty, 1951 (1952)US-Japan Security Treaty Japanese Foreign Minister Shigemitsu Mamoru Signing the surrender Agreement, 9/2/45