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| Japan is called | Land of the rising sun |
| Japan's population is | over 127 million |
| name main sources of food | fish and rice |
| system of writing | Kana |
| two colors make up the Japanese flag | red and white - Rising Sun |
| What % of Japan is mountainous | 80% |
| Name 3 major Japanese cities | Kyoto Tokyo Nagasaki Hiroshima |
| how many total islands make up Japan | over 3,000 4 major islands |
| Japan is a homogenous society. What does that mean? | Speak the same language share same culture No ethnic minorities |
| Japanese position in society. | Your position was inherited |
| In Ancient Japan people were organized into | clans |
| three main religious traditions in Japan | Shinto, Buddhism, Confucianism |
| Which of Japan main religious tradition blends something of the other two? | Shinto does not give an answer to the after life, so some combines Shinto and Buddhism. |
| Describe women’s role in Japanese society compared to men. | Inferior to men after the introduction of Confucianism |
| Japanese isolationism US role? | U.S. forced Japan to begin trading with the U.S. |
| Name two reforms the Meiji leaders adopted after 1868. | Abolished torture, established a tax system and court/legal system 2 house diet (parliament) |
| Depression impact on Japan | Slowed trade with other nations causing Japanese businesses to suffer |
| Manchuria | Land in Northern China taken over by Japan in 1930 |
| Pearl Harbor | Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese bombed American Naval base in Hawaii |
| Atom bomb U.S. | Dropped two Atomic Bombs on Japan bring an end to WWII |
| Shogun | chief General of the Army who was the real ruler in feudal Japan |
| Feudalism | System of government under which Local lords ruled the land but were bound by ties of loyalty to higher lords and to the monarch or emperor |
| Samurai Japanese warrior knights | Japanese warrior knights |
| Bushido | Code of behavior developed by Japan’s Samurai class that emphasized military virtues and the samurai’s duty of loyalty to his lord |
| Daimyo | powerful samurai warriors under the control of Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate |
| cultural diffusion | movement of customs or ideas from one place to another |
| militarism | glorification of the military and a readiness for war |
| selective borrowing | The practice of taking the good and discarding the bad. |
| Zailbatsu | powerful family groups that founded huge business conglomerates that controlled large parts of the economy |
| figure head ruler (emperor) | no real power just a religious system like the Queen of Great Britain |
