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Page 1: Japan Japan is an archipelago of over 6,000 islands Four largest islands are Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku Most dominant feature: Mount Fuji.
Page 2: Japan Japan is an archipelago of over 6,000 islands Four largest islands are Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku Most dominant feature: Mount Fuji.

Japan

• Japan is an archipelago of over 6,000 islands

• Four largest islands are Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku

• Most dominant feature: Mount Fuji

Page 3: Japan Japan is an archipelago of over 6,000 islands Four largest islands are Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku Most dominant feature: Mount Fuji.

Japan

• By the 300’s, Japan was unified under the Yamato Clan and an emperor

• From 600’s (Nara and Heian Periods), Japan influenced by Chinese writing, government, Confucianism, and Buddhism

Page 4: Japan Japan is an archipelago of over 6,000 islands Four largest islands are Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku Most dominant feature: Mount Fuji.

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• Japan fell into a warlord period

• Code of Bushido established

• Samurai – knights who served lords

• 1192 –Emperor created position of Shogun

• Provinces administered by Daimyo

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Japan

• Unification of Japan began under different shoguns

• 1500’s - Portuguese traders introduced guns and Christianity

• Christianity and guns thrown out by Tokugawa Shogunate

• Shogun isolated Japan

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• 1853 – Japan forcibly opened to trade by Commodore Matthew Perry (US)

• 1868 – Shogun removed and replaced by emperor rule (Meiji Restoration)

• Japan adopted constitutional monarchy

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• Japan copied the West and industrialized and modernized

• 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War – Japan defeated Russia

• Attacked Pearl Harbor Dec 7th 1941 and US into WWII

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• US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 1945)

• Japan occupied by US troops

• Japan became US ally• Japan became first

“Asian Tiger”

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• Japan’s population is homogeneous (98.5% Japanese)

• Population is also aging as birth rate continues to drop

• Shintoism – animistic religion; 80% Japan Shinto

• Very open to Western influences