Japan
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- Nara khoto
- first capitals of japn
- near inland sea khoto
- cultural center and chief industrial center
- diet
- legislature
- kami
- spirit or god in shinto shrine
- meiji restoration
- 1868-1912
- kendo
- fencing with bamboo swords
- tokuwaga
- 1603-1868 brought fedualism and isolation
- tojo
- hanged after war pm during part of wwii
- kyoiku mama
- education mothers
- yan'an
- where was second sino-japanese war fought
- shintoism
- native religion
- enlightened ruler
- meiji means
- second sino-japanese war 37-45
- war between china and japan fought on china mainland (japanese imperial army vs. chiang kai-shek's national army and mao zedong comm. army) and when
- Ainu
- first people of japan
- arrows with suction cups
- drives away spirits
- ronin
- masterless samurai
- 26-89
- when reign of hirohito
- shinjinrui
- teens
- koto
- harp
- obi
- sash with kimono
- bonsai
- dwarfing and shaping of trees
- sashima
- raw fish
- hirohito
- longest reigning emperor and during wwii
- rape of nanking
- during invasion of korean pen.
- zen buddhism
- another religion
- 47 profecture
- divided into
- yamato
- in broadest sense japanese things compared to chinese
- yamato damashi
- spirit of japan
- ryoanji
- zen buddha temple
- kannon
- bodhisattva for protection and comfort
- daibutsu
- "great buddha"
- filial piety
- respect for ones elders
- kamakura
- 2nd largest bronze statue where
- hideyoshi
- founder in 1582
- gohan
- cooked rice
- akihito
- current emperor
- sushi
- raw fish with seaweed
- nippon
- japanese name for japan
- kimono
- trad. japan robe
- todaiji daibutsu
- 1st largest bronze staute and wooden building
- ginza
- top shopping district
- fifteen-year war 31-45
- japanese involement in wwii and when
- oyabun
- leader
- 8 corners of the world under one roof or greater east asia co-prosperity sphere
- idea that integrated asia was free from west and controlled by japan; RATIONALIZED JAPANSS EXPANSIONAIST AMBITIONS IN ASIA
- macarthur
- us military commander in japan
- khoto
- where ryoanji
- shinkansen
- bullet train
- showa era
- reign of hirohito called
- mathew perry
- isolation ended in 1853
- ikebana
- art of arranging flowers
- torii
- gate symbolizing division between human world and spirit world
- haiku
- poem
- pachinko
- pinball
- jizo
- bodhisattva for childbirth deaths and abortion
- zaibatsu
- small factories sold by Meiji govt
- juku
- cram school
- kobun
- "children"