| A | B |
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| archipelago | A chain of islands. |
| Pacific Rim (Ring of Fire) | A region in the Pacific known for earthquakes and volcanoes. |
| typhoons | Tropical storms of the Pacific from August to October. |
| Shinto | Belief that spirits (Kami) live in everything, creating a link between people and nature. |
| Buddhism | Taught good deeds lead to salvation, rebirth, and enlightenment. Promised an afterllife. |
| terracing | Farming on the sides of hills or mountains. |
| Yen | Japanese currency. |
| Confucianism | Ideology "borrowed" from China that taught duty, obligation, and respect. |
| Population Density | The number of people living in a given area. |
| Diet | Japanese parliament. |
| Selective Borrowing | Japan took many ideas from other cultures, but maintained its own identity by not accepting them all. |
| tariffs | Taxes on foreign goods. |
| seppuku | Ritual suicide by disembowlment. |
| Bushido | "Way of the Warrior." Samurai's code of conduct based on honor, loyalty, bravery and respect. |
| cultural diffusion | The exchange of ideas between cultures. |
| Samurai | Warrior class of Feudal Japan. |
| Feudalism | Rule by local lords tied to higher lords by loyalty. |
| Shogun | Chief general of the army. Had the real power in Feudal Japan. |
| Daimyo | Powerful Samurai lords. |
| Meiji Restoration | Japan's attempt to modernize and become a world power from 1868-1912. |
| Zaibasu | Families that created large organizations (companies) with government help. |
| annexation | To add on. |
| demilitarization | The cutting down or elimination of the military. |
| "Asian Tiger" | Economic powers in Asia. |
| pacifism | Opposition to violence or force for any reason. |
| Trade Imbalance | More products are exported (from Japan) than are imported. |
| reparations | Payments for damages. (Example- Japan paid them to nations it had conquered after WWII.) |
| "island hopping" | Strategy used by the U.S. during WWII in the Pacific to defeat Japan. |
| Haiku | A seventeen syllable poem. |
| Tokugawa | Period of centralized feudalism in Japan. |
| kimono | Traditional dress of the Japanese. |
| Imperialism (expansion) | One country taking over another country. |
| Isolation | To close one's country off from the rest of the world. |
| Kabuki | Exciting and colorful plays in Japan. |
| Tokyo (Edo) | Capital of Japan. |
| Hiroshima | First Japanese city bombed by the U.S. in August of 1945. |
| Nagasaki | Second city bombed by U.S. in August of 1945 forcing the surrender of Japan in WWII. |
| Pacific Rim | Area in the Pacific Ocean of heavey volcanic activity and earthquakes. |
| Pearl Harbor | U.S. naval base in Hawaii destroy by a Japanese suprise attack on December 7, 1941. |
