4 question about modern japanese history

[bursan serebay]

1. How did new thinking about knowledge and scholarship influence political ideology in Japan before the Meij Restoration?
2. How did the japanese react to American and European demands to begin diplomatic and trade relations?
3. Describe the Boshin War (the war of the Meiji Restoration)
4. Explain the problems that the Meiji goverment encountered when it tried to draft and implement a constitution.

I would be very happy, if you help me.

 

[Louis XXIV]

Do your own homework

 

[Flying Pig]

I suppose we should be honoured that this lad signed up to CFC just to ask us for help with his homework. I have to confess to unwittingly helping someone like that the other day in the questions thread.

 

[Traitorfish]

1. How did new thinking about knowledge and scholarship influence political ideology in Japan before the Meij Restoration?

Exposure to Western animations such as Loony Tunes and Avatar: The Last Airbender encouraged the Japanese to develop their own animations, leading to a proliferation of animated shows depicting subject matter from high school drama to space opera to weird existential musings about kittens journeying to a surrealist version of the Buddhist underworld. As the Shogun prohibited the public trade of such material on the basis that it was "utter bollocks [utter borroku]", enthusiasm for these cartoons came to mean opposition towards the Shogunate.

2. How did the japanese react to American and European demands to begin diplomatic and trade relations?

They performed a series of elaborate musical routines, each more daring in composition and choreography. This awed the Western visitors, who were unfamiliar with the concept of musical theatre, buying the Japanese time to plot develop a more permanent solution.

3. Describe the Boshin War (the war of the Meiji Restoration)

Two words:

Giant. Robots.

4. Explain the problems that the Meiji goverment encountered when it tried to draft and implement a constitution.

Magpies had stolen all of their pens and rats had eaten all of their paper, so they were forced to carve the new constitution into the side of vegetables. To make matters worse, this arduous process left the ministers hungry, and in the famished delirium they took to gnawing on those parts of the constitution already drafted. To this day, the fourteenth article of the constitution is a matter of much scholarly debate, because the Emperor took a large bite out of the turnip onto which it was carved and his ministers were too polite to draw attention to it.

 

[H4run]

Come on WH, ok even though I'm in hurry I will help this guy a bit.

1. How did new thinking about knowledge and scholarship influence political ideology in Japan before the Meij Restoration?

I thought Japanese after Meiji is pretty much get westernise (that's not always a good thing), they abandon katana and use sabre instead for the army equipment which later on they abandon it step by step during WW 2 to form a solid national identity.

The shogunate also fall down, and the strict Confucian bureaucrat push the important of Meiji/Mikado and restore its power, that's why it is not called: revolution or reformation, instead it is known as restoration.

2. How did the japanese react to American and European demands to begin diplomatic and trade relations?

They had no choice I guess? the American bring their fleet and threaten the Japanese, which the Japanese chose to collaborate and began to revolutionize their army so they have an equal standing (even it is resulting they becomes another major power).

 

[Kyriakos]

Not that i read more on this than some wiki articles ( :/ ) but it seems that they cite main sources on the claim there that Japan became rapidly more hostile towards the great powers after the forced change of the result of the 2nd Sino-Japanese war (France, Russia and Germany threatened to invade Japan if it did not give up some of the key rulings following the peace in that war).

Of course following the Japanese-Russian war of 1905, Japan went on in the following decade to annex Korea. It also invaded the main Russian port in the orient without formally declaring war.

Later on, in ww2 times, it run a number of nice experiments on humans, such as cutting their limbs off to see how much they would be in pain or how they can be stitched up in time, or using biological weapons on captured or civilian chinese humans to test them for a war weapon.

 

[Plotinus]

weird existential musings about kittens journeying to a surrealist version of the Buddhist underworld.

I loved that film! Though I suspect that it's really intended to be enjoyed in a more pharmaceutically adventurous state of mind.

 

[ParkCungHee]

Magpies had stolen all of their pens and rats had eaten all of their paper, so they were forced to carve the new constitution into the side of vegetables. To make matters worse, this arduous process left the ministers hungry, and in the famished delirium they took to gnawing on those parts of the constitution already drafted. To this day, the fourteenth article of the constitution is a matter of much scholarly debate, because the Emperor took a large bite out of the turnip onto which it was carved and his ministers were too polite to draw attention to it.

You're one of the writers for Tropico, aren't you?

 

[Terxpahseyton]

I loved that film! Though I suspect that it's really intended to be enjoyed in a more pharmaceutically adventurous state of mind.

What film is it? I am feeling adventurous.

 

[Plotinus]

This one. Oddly I found myself recommending this to someone earlier today, in the context of good anime to watch if you can't sleep in the middle of the night. It's pretty trippy.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Thanks

 

[Traitorfish]

This one. Oddly I found myself recommending this to someone earlier today, in the context of good anime to watch if you can't sleep in the middle of the night. It's pretty trippy.

Actually, I meant to refer to Cat Soup.

Evidently kittens-go-on-surreal-journey-through-the-afterlife really is an established genre in Japan!

 

[Tee Kay]

Two words:

Giant. Robots.

I guess we have you to thank for the 51st century epic "The Gundams of Satsuma"

 

[Plotinus]

I think we've all learned something here.

 

[Wrymouth3]

the Meij

Are these people related to the Zanj? If they are, i'm impressed that CFC has finally caught up to pace with the Zanj!

 

[Glassfan]

bursan serebay has not made any friends yet...

Well, no surprise.