1. Japan

4. 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

5. 1. Homogeneity 98% Japanese Korean and Chinese minority Status of Burakumin

6. 2. Uniqueness 3. Isolation From: 1600/1638 To: 1853

7. 4. Borrowing Japanese spin Traditionon foreign ideas “Japanification” foreign ideas

8. 5. Geography From: Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, http://tochi.mlit.go.jp/h19hakusho/set_0_eng.htm

9. 6. Communitarian Individualistic? “The squeaky wheel gets the grease.” Communitarian? “The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.” The role of geography and economics

10. 7. Adaptability and Organizational Skills Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry data from: http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/challenge/energy/nuclear/p-necess-e.html

11. 8. Emperor First Emperor, Jimmu Tenno (660-585 BC), Great, Great, Great, Grandson of Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess, National Foundation Day: Feb 11

12. 9. Power behind the Scenes Tanaka Kakuei LDP, 1960s-1980s Ozawa Ichiro DPJ, 1990s-present

13. Periods of History 1.10 th -17 th : Feudal Japan 2.1600-1868 Tokugawa Era 3.1868 Meiji Restoration 4.1920s-1940s: –Institutionalists vs. Nationalists

14. 1. Feudal Japan From: Government of Saskatchewan, 7 th Grade Curriculum, http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/midlsoc/gr7/74handouts1.html

15. Samurai Class Nitobe Inazo, Bushido: The Soul of Japan, 1908Bushido: The Soul of Japan

16. Centralization Grows: Shogun Oda Nobunaga 1568-1582 Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1582-1598 –Unified Japan 1590 –1598: Tokugawa shogunate vs. Mitsunari shogunate

17. Battle of Sekigahara, 1600

18. Sekigahara Action Figure

19. 2. Tokugawa Era: 1600-1868

20. Tokugawa Era Isolation Centralized Feudalism Emperor?

21. Samurai of 1860s

22. 3. Meiji Restoration End of isolation Restoration and revolution Birth of Modern Japan

23. 1853 US Navy in Tokyo Bay Treaty of KanagawaTreaty of Kanagawa, March 31, 1854

24. Meiji Restoration: Emperor Mutsuhito 1852-1912 Meiji Era: 1867-1912 (enlightened rule)

25. 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.

26. Power and Expansion Sino-Japanese War 1894-5 Treaty Of Shimonoseki Russo-Japanese War 1904-5 Treaty of Portsmouth

27. 4. Nationalism and War Ultranationalists vs. Institutionalists Washington Naval Treaty 1922 London Naval Treaty 1930 1931 Manchuria (Manchukuo)

28. Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

29. December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor

30. May 1945 Tokyo Firebombing

31. Tokyo after the Attacks

32. Hiroshima August 6, 1945

33. After the bomb

35. Nagasaki August 9, 1945

36. 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