The Tokugawa Period

With a total of one hundred and sixty thousand men facing each other in the Battle of Sekigahara, in which it had begun on October 21, 1600. As the battle ended with Tokugawa’s success, Tokugawa Ieyasu was the new ruler of Japan. With the result of the western noble being captured and killed. At sixty, Tokugawa Ieyasu had received the title of shōgun from Emperor Go-Yōzei on March 24, 1603. Tokugawa Ieyasu outlived all of the other great men of his period.

Just like there were knights in Europe, in Japan there were the samurai. The samurai also called bushi were the warriors of pre-modern Japan. Later in time they became a military ruling class in the Edo period. Their main weapon was the sword and it was their symbol as well. They were supposed to lead their life according to the code of the ethnic code of the bushido.

The English Renaissance known as the rebirth of civilization spanned from 1485 to 1625. The Renaissance period began concurrently with the Tudor dynasty. After Henry VII died in 1509, Henry VIII succeeded the throne when he was only 17. He was married to Catherine of Aragon and they had one daughter together named Mary. “Henry’s VIII’s relationship with the pope soon disintegrated when he tried to have his marriage with Catherine of Aragon annulled” (Kinsella 225).

They 're savages with bows and arrows '" (The Last 00:30:24).The Colonel immediately assumes that the Samurai are powerless natives that follow a primitive lifestyle and will be easily crushed by the Imperial Army. Algren, however, is not so sure of this, but Bagley initiates the attack regardless of Algren 's input. The little respect that the Colonel shows for the Samurai demonstrates ethnocentrism because the Colonel believes the Americans are superior to the Japanese. During the 18th and 19th century imperializing nations ' only concern was profit, so they exploited and manipulated the less modernized countries.

It evolved in a time where people needed protection from invasions. This system was meant for the kings and important people to have control over the serfs and the peasants. 
 The most important relationship in the feudal society is between the lord, the vassals, and the peasants. The lord was a monarch who controlled all land and people. Vassals were noblemen that had been promised a fief (from the lord) in exchange for military service and loyalty.

Yosimasa, the shogun of Japan, didn’t have any male heirs to his throne. So he decided to make his younger brother the heir, soon after this announcement, Yosimasa’s wife gave him a son, leaving Yosimasa confused on what to do. So two the rival clans of Hosokawa and Yamana argued against who should be the heir. So, both of the sides set up an army and started fighting, which dragged Daimyō (samurai leaders) along and then this war went nationwide. It was fought in the capital city of the time, Kyoto which was destroyed, the war went on for ten years, until both sides gave up, therefore ending the Ōnin War.

Under Liholiho, the kapu system was overthrown only six months after Kamehameha’s death (Daws 55), while the Tokugawa system of rule would continue for 250

The Burma Campaign was in South-East Asia in World War II and was fought by the forces of the British Empire and China, with support from the United States, against the Empire of Japan, Thailand, and the Indian National Army. Burma was one of the worst affected areas in World War II. In Burma, the Japanese Army military setbacks which led to them retreating to the east. The Japanese wanted to take over Yangon, the capital and also a popular seaport.

After generations of a disorganized and ununified city-state collection that was at the time today’s Myanmar, British imperialism did not stop at the Eastern borders of British India. The British exploited the political instability and ethnic diversity of Burma to colonize it over the 62 year period of the three Anglo-Burmese wars. Up until 1937, Burma was a direct extremity of India, and only became its own crown colony in that year. As if to continue its history of invasion and occupation, the Japanese, with assistance from the Burma Independence Army (later to become the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League ), occupied Burma in 1942. However Japanese seizure of Burma was only a brief stint due to the fact that after merely three years,

He promptly resigned and started working as a imperial appointee at the Office of the Privy Seal to revise the constitution. After presenting the first draft to Emperor Hirohito on November 22, 1945, the draft was presented to MacArthur in February of next year. MacArthur rejected this draft by calling it “nothing more than a rewording of the old Meiji constitution. " To take the task upon himself and also to eschew other Allied Forces, he created a committee that consisted of 25 members. Most members were military officers and others were civilians.

Hirohito was born on April 29, 1901, in tokyo, japan. Made crown prince at the age of 15, he was japan’s longest-reigning monarch, ruling from 1926 to 1989. The level of his involvement with Japan’s military during world war 11 has remained debatable, though he announced the country’s surrender to the allied forces in 1945. Then had plans to go to war with the united states as a self-destructive and opposed an alliance with nazi germany, though hedid little to stop the war that japan waged in his name. According to the long awaited official history of his reign released on tuesday.

The English colonies were technically not allowed to produce their own goods or buy from anywhere other than Britain, only buy them from England at a higher price so that their industry and economy would be built up again from debt and unemployment due to the ending of the war. This poor treatment due to England coming over to fight for us set the foundation for what would one day lead us to become independent. Of course many colonists weren’t going to heed to everything that England commanded, white men and even women were standing up for their rights. For example the Daughters of Liberty were a group of ladies dedicated to boycotting British goods and producing

In the early 1900s, due to Imperial Japan’s struggling transition from the feudal era to the modern era, Japanese immigrants were flooding into the West coast of America. Fearful of the rising number of Japanese immigrants, Americans would proceed to try and eradicate the “yellow peril”, leading to prejudiced exchanges and racist encounters with the Japanese-Americans. These encounters would drastically affect the Japanese-American community and ultimately lead to their internment during WWII. Because of Imperial Japan’s struggle to come into the modern age, its economy was increasingly worsened. The first Japanese-Americans, or Issei, came to America in the early 1880s, looking for work and adventure.

Japan (1500s) Japan in the 1500s is a century of decentralized power and constnt warfare among competing lords, this period is known as the "Sengoku," or "Country at War" (1467-1573). These are the years of Japan 's medieval period (1185-1600) before the reunification of Japan and the establishment of order and peace under the Tokugawa shoguns (1600-1868). Castles are built by medieval lords (daimyo) for defense throughout the civil war. In 1543 the Portuguese traders reach Japan and are soon followed by the Jesuit missionary order. The Jesuits work among the samurai class and are initially well received by leading daimyo, including Nobunaga and Hideyoshi, two daimyo crucial to the reunification of Japan.

In 1603 the emperor made Ieyasu shogun. To further gain power Tokugawa quickly destroyed many enemy daimyo houses like the houses of the Toyotomi family. Despite this, Ieyasu still didn’t have control over the western daimyo. After further consolidating his