CONTEMPORARY-WORLD-VII week 7 and lesson seven .pptx

1. CHRISTIANITY IN JAPAN
Japanese destroyed the Portuguese strongholds.
Permitted two Dutch merchant
ships to trade in Nagasaki in 1715.
Francis Xavier a Jesuit arrived in Japan in 1549 for
three years and converting about 5,000,000.

2. MOMOYAMA PERIOD
This period is the political unification led to
the establishment of the Tokugawa
shogunate.
Hideyoshi became the founder of the
Tokugawa Shogunate.
He levied taxes against the Daimio to provide relief after the
earthquake and other calamities.
Build forts and shrines and Tokyo became the capital during this
dynasty.

3. THREE CLASSES OF COMMONERS IN TOKUGAWA JAPAN
Peasants
Supports the Samurai class. Tokugawa shogums allowed them to
be rich yet it did not improve their family’s status.
Artisans and Merchants
Had lower status but contributed to the economy.
They paid an annual fee to the daimyo, in return they give them
permission to do business on their land.

5. EDO PERIOD
The Edo is the period between 1603 and
1868 in the history of Japan.
It was under the rule of the Tokugawa
shogunate and the country's 300 regional
daimyo.
Became united for the first time and Iyeyasu also banned
Christianity and Japan began its period of isolation.

6. JAPAN BECOMES A WORLD POWER
In July 8, 1853; Commodore
Matthew Perry forces the Japanese
government to open its doors for trade.
His goal was to force Japan to end its
policy of isolation.
Treaty of Kanagawa was signed in March, 1854.
The treaty granted the Americans the right to stop at two
Japanese ports for supply.

7. MEIJI PERIOD
The Meiji Era was the 44-year period from
1868 to 1912 when the country was under
the rule of the great Emperor Mutsuhito.
Period began in 1868 when the last
shogunate of Tokugawa was defeated.
Emperor Meiji moved the imperial capital from Kyoto to Tokyo.

8. Known as the Meiji Restoration, brought
about many changes to Japanese society.
Made efforts to modernize and industrialize
the country.
Shogunate domains were replaced.
The national army, navy, and police force along with a national
railway and education system.
Japanese people started to welcome Western fashion, literature,
music, and more.

9. SINO JAPANESE WAR
The First Sino-Japanese War, known as
the Chino-Japanese War. 25 July 1894 –
17 April 1895.
A conflict between Qing dynasty of China and the Empire of Japan
primarily over influence in Joseon Korea.
Marked the emergence of Japan as a major world power and the
weakness of the Chinese empire.

10. RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR
The Russo-Japanese War was fought during
1904 and 1905 between the Russian Empire
and the Empire of Japan over ambitions in
Manchuria and Korea.
1904 Admiral Togo attacked the Russian naval fleet.
1905 the Treaty of Portsmouth was signed ending the Russo-
Japanese war.

11. GROWTH OF EXTREME NATIONALISM
Effects of depression, the Japanese believed that they should not
stop the overseas expansion.
Military Dictatorship
In the 1930’s Japan gradually became a military dictatorship.
They glorified the military and readiness for war.
They emphasized loyalty to the emperor, Hirohito and encouraged
people that Japan had a special mission in to free Asian nations
from western imperialism.

12. JAPANESE MILITARISM
Japanese economic problems worsens in the 1920s.
Problem of overpopulation and U.S. closes its doors to Japanese
immigrants.
Great Depression began in 1929 which contributed the problems
to Japan.
September, 1931 Japan occupied Manchuria for new territory of
the Japanese people.
Japanese named the it Manchukuo.

13. SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR
July 7, 1937, to September 2, 1945, a
conflict that broke out when China began a
full-scale resistance to the expansion of
Japanese influence.
It began with the Marco Polo Bridge
Incident in 1937 in a dispute between Japanese and Chinese troops
escalated into a battle.

14. WORLD WAR II
December 7, 1941 without warning Japan
attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
Japan established the Greater East Asia
Co-prosperity Sphere (Asia for Asians).
It seizes the countries of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia,
Singapore, Philippines, Burma, Indonesia and other areas in East
Asia.

15. END OF WORLD WAR II
July 1944, General Douglas MacArthur had
gained control of the Islands from
Australia to the Marianas Islands.
January 1945, the Allied forces recapture
Southeast Asia.
Manila was back in the American stronghold and Rangoon was
retaken.
Iwo Jima and Okinawa the two southern islands of Japan were
taken by the Americans and allied forces.

16. Allied forces demanded the unconditional surrender
of Japan.
August 6,9 1945, Atomic bomb was dropped on the
city of Hiroshima and three days later in Nagasaki.
August 14, 1945, Japan's surrender to the
world.
September 2, 1945, USS Missouri at Tokyo Bay,
Japan surrendered.

17. AMERICAN OCCUPATION
Japan was occupied by American forces from September 1945 to
April 1952, was administered by Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
General staff of the army and navy was dissolved.
Police force was retained for peace and order and the secret police
force Kempeitai was disbanded.
Basic freedoms were upheld and religious affiliations.
New constitution was adopted and the Emperor was stripped of
his divinity.

18. TREATY OF SAN FRANCISCO WERE:
1. Japan was recognized as an independent, sovereign power.
2. Occupation forces were to withdraw within ninety days
3. Japan lost all her colonies
4. Japan was compelled to pay reparation to the countries during
the war.
5. American armed forces were allowed to stay indefinitely in the
Japanese territories.

19. JAPANESE ECONOMIC MIRACLE
Gov’t introduced Japanese style market system.
*The long-term employment system
*Corporate governance built on crossshare holdings among
businesses and with other financial institutions.
*The main-bank system.
The gov’t also introduced Fair Market Policy and took measures
for labor market, agricultural and educational reformation.
Created strong business environment.

20. The Japanese economic miracle refers to Japan's record period of
economic growth between the post-World War II era to the end of
the Cold War.
The economic boom, Japan rapidly became the world's second
largest economy after the west.
Created strong business environment.

21. DID YOU KNOW?
*There are more seniors than kids.
*One of the world's lowest crime rates.
*Most vending machines in the world.
*To clean is a part of the education in many schools.
*Japan consists of 6852 islands.

22. António da Mota and Francisco Zeimoto
Two Portuguese traders accidentally land on the
island of Tanegashima in 1543.
They are the first documented Europeans to set foot
in Japan.

23. Tempura
A typical Japanese dish consisting of seafood,
meat and vegetables that have been battered
and deep fried.
The dish was introduced by the Portuguese in Nagasaki through
the fritter-cooking techniques in the 16th century.
The name tempura comes from the Latin word tempora cuaresme,
which means 'in the time of Lent.
A meal meant for Lent, when many Christian are forbidden to eat
meat.

24. EDUCATION SYSTEM OF JAPAN
School System
Japanese Educational system was reformed after World War II.
Old 6-5-3-3 system
New 6-3-3-4
6 years of elementary school, 3 years of junior high school, 3 years
of senior high school and 4 years of university
9 years of schooling are compulsory.

25. Education is compulsory in elementary and in lower secondary
levels.
Most schools operate on three term system ( Summer-winter-
spring).
Schools open in April and ends in March the next year which was
modelled after the French school system.
Japanese students spend 240 days a year in school, 60 days more
than their American counterparts.
Average school day on weekdays is 6 hours.

26. JAPANESE LANGUAGE
Japan has four different writing styles:
Hiragana and Katakana which are the easiest,
Kanji the most complicated.
Can be written vertically right to left or
horizontally left to right.

27. Basic Japanese Words
はい Hai. Yes.
いいえ iie. No.
おねがい します Onegai shimasu. Please.
こんにちわ Konnichiwa. Hello / Good day.
おはよう ございます Ohayō gozaimasu. Good morning.
はじめまして Hajimemashite. Nice to meet you
もしもし Moshi moshi. “Hello?”
すみません Sumimasen. Excuse me
さようなら Sayōnara. Goodbye
お元気ですか Ogenkidesuka? How are you?
お名前は何ですか Onamaehanandesuka. What is your name?
いくら Ikura How much?
ていますaishiteimasu I love you
金をくれ Kin o kure Give me money

28. QUOTES ON JAPAN
The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese
culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country,
the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the
beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost
overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically
short.
Homaro Cantu

29. How did the Japanese develop their own history?
How would you explain the Japanese economic miracle
after the second world war?
When did economic globalization start?
State economic globalization.