1. Japan and the Koreas

2. Early History: Japan 700s A.D. Had Emperor Japan – Feudal system
Religion – Shinto
Respect for nature and ancestors

3. 1100s - Emperor lost power
Power rested with Shogun

4. Shogun – powerful warlord
Samurai – professional warriors
Served shogun
Peasants – farmed and dug ditches
Merchants and artisans

6. Under this feudal system; local lords invaded each other

8. Threat of Mongolians
Forces Japanese lords to unite
1274 – 1st invasion sent by Kublai Kahn
Japanese fended off

9. 1281 – 2nd invasion force
Japanese were ready
Built wall – unable to land

10. Mongol Fleet
Large ships filled with men; huge armada
Japanese Fleet
Small, light, crafts

11. Fleet destroyed by typhoons
kamikaze or “divine wind”
Mongols never returned

12. Kamikaze
WW II – the suicide pilots

14. Map of the Japanese Empire at its height in 1942.

16. Japanese Zero

18. Doris “Dorie” Miller African American
Awarded the Navy Cross for heroism during Pearl Harbor – Dec 7, 1941
“Above and Beyond the Call of Duty” poster – used in WW II
Died 1943

20. Admiral Nimitz Citation
"For distinguished devotion to duty, extraordinary courage and disregard for his own personal safety during the attack on the Fleet in Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, by Japanese forces on December 7, While at the side of his Captain on the bridge, Miller, despite enemy strafing and bombing and in the face of a serious fire, assisted in moving his Captain, who had been mortally wounded, to a place of greater safety, and later manned and operated a machine gun directed at enemy Japanese attacking aircraft until ordered to leave the bridge”

23. "Howard A. Wooten." Graduated December 1944 from Air Corps School, Tuskegee, AL. Ca. December 1944.

25. 1600s to 1800s, Japan limits trade with Europeans

26. 1853 – Commodore Matthew Perry, U.S. Navy, went to Japan to open trade
Treaty of Kanagawa – opened Japan to trade with America

27. Meiji Restoration Samurai wanted reforms Overthrew last shogun
Restored emperor’s power
Meiji – “enlightened rule”
Capital moved to Tokyo

28. Emperor begins to modernize Japan
1890 – Japan has strongest military in Asia

29. 1895 – take Taiwan
1905 – take territory from Russia
1910 – annex Korea
After WW I – gain more territories
1937 – invade China
– Hitler begins invasions

30. Korea

31. After WW II Japan looses Korea North Korea – Soviet Union
South Korea – U.S.
1949 – Soviet and U.S. withdraw from Korea

32. 1950 – N. Korea invades S. Korea
U.S. helps defend S. Korea
China steps in to help N. Korea
1953 – two sides sign armistice, or truce, to end the fighting

33. DMZ – demilitarized zone
Land between N. and S. Korea
“buffer zone”
No military forces enter
38th parallel

35. North Korea Under communist leader – Kim Jong IL
His father communist leader of China