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| Cyclical Wind Patterns that bring rain or dry air depending on the season. |
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| Traditional religion of Japan that teaches that there are spirits in nature called Kami. |
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| What Shinto followers call the spirits in nature. |
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| Political and Social system that relies on oaths of loyalty in return for land. This social system has the most powerful people (landowners) over those who have the least power (peasants who work the land). |
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| Powerful shogunate that made all the samurai loyal to the shogun first and their local lord second. This helped unify Japan for the first time. |
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| the most powerful Daimyo in feudal Japan who controlled Japan. |
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| Tokugawa Seclusion Act/Isolation Act |
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| Law that forbid any foreigners from entering Japan. If foreigners were found they would be executed. Japanese were not permitted to leave Japan either. This was in an attempt to keep foreigner influence and culture out of Japan. |
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| American Commodore who force Japan to open up its ports for trade thus ending Japan’s isolation period. |
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| After the Japanese ports were forced open Japan was overwhelmed with foreign influence. The Japanese were upset with the Shogun for allowing foreigners in so they restored power back to the emperor (Meiji) who began modernizing Japan. |
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| Importance of Meiji Restoration |
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| Period of rapid modernization and industrialization by Japan in the late 1800’s. Japan was trying to catch up to the rest of the world after being isolated for nearly 150 years. |
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| warrior class of Japan during Feudalism |
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| code of conduct for a samurai |
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| area north of China that the Japanese conquered (imperialism) for natural resources for industrialization. |
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| Glorification and build up of the military; this occurred during the Meiji Restoration. |
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| The Japanese bombed the American port because they felt that war with the U.S. was inevitable because the U.S. had cut off oil to Japan. This act brought the U.S. into WWII. |
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| The U.S. strategy to take back islands in Southeast Asia from the Japanese in WWII. Each island was strategically chosen so that the Americans could get closer to the main islands of Japan. |
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| The two cities where the U.S. dropped atomic bombs to end the war with Japan |
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| Leader of Japan during WWII. After the war he was permitted to remain emperor but his governmental powers were stripped. Japan is now a democracy and the emperor is a figure head with no real power. |
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| During the Meiji restoration Japanese leaders realized they needed more resources to industrialize so they decided to conquer other nations (imperialism) because of their lack of resources. |
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| the old Daimyo class that traded in their land to start leading new corporations in the Japanese modern economy. The Zaibatsu are considered powerful families that own many of the major Japanese corporations. |
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| the land bridge that connects Japan with the rest of Asia. Many ideas have been culturally diffused to and from Japan through Korea. |
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when earthquakes occur under water they can lead to these major tidal waves often causing massive destruction. Japan is vulnerable to these because of its location near many fault lines.
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| landowning class in Feudal Japan. |
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