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Visualising the Japanese Cluture - Coggle Diagram
Visualising the Japanese Cluture
Power & Opulence
Provocation
Japan started fearing their religion's future due to "The Strong eat up the Weak" becoming the motto of Western Imperialist conquests.
Retaliation
Feeling compelled to invade Korea to protect it from China.
Organising Nationalist Campaigns
1) A military code, which read "Imperial Percepts to soldiers and Sailors" highlighted the fact that Japanese soldiers had undying loyalty to the Emperor and glorified one's death for the country's cause.
2) The campaigns included a depiction of the Emperor in a military uniform overseeing military manoeuvres.
This made him a symbol of military excellence and furthered the ideology that the Nationalist Campaigns wanted to propagate.
3) The Emperor, as a result of strategic campaigning, was at the center of a militaristic nationalism that bolstered his image as the supreme commander of Japan.
Westernisation
Provocation
Feudal Japan was urged by US Commodore Matthew Perry to abolish isolationist policies and enforce ideologies fit for an open country.
The US, Britain and China's economies were better than Japan's economy (which was primarily agrarian).
The use of Gunboat diplomacy and expansionist policies during the Firs Opium War (which lasted from 1839-1842) and the Arrow War (which lasted from 1856-1858) made Japan fearful of whether they were next.
Retaliation
Japan took measures to strengthen it's military and navy.
Japan abandoned it's feudal system that was active for the past 7 centuries with the claim of breaking evil customs of the past.
Japan also enacted expansionist policies that made them go to war with China in 1894 and Russia in 1904.
Enlightenment
Provocation
Imperialist operations outside their country by expansionist nations began.
Western nations fuelling their economies through industrialisation and nation refining.
Retaliation
Military Competence
The warrior class was abolished and conscription enforced military and navy service was enforced. The industrialised invention, coal-burning paddlewheel ships made up the entirety of naval fleets.
New technology was developed such as telegraph, railroad and street lamps.
Industrialised inventions like textile machinery became commonplace in the cottage industry.
Westernisation
European traditional wear was worn by the Japanese rulers and that became a symbol of western liberal and progressive values.
The most famous places in Japan were influenced by Western-style architecture.
A western influenced constitution was put into place.
Emperor made a constitutional monarch
Parliament was implemented in the governing style.