David Taylor Hawaii Pacific University Professor Poe Anthropology – 2000 30 Nov 2013 Ainu People Ainu in the native tongue means “human” and in Japanese it is “Ezo.” They live on the island of Hokkaido, the most northern island of Japan, second largest to the main island Honshu. Could this protective archipelago surrounded by ocean preserve a civilization for over 10,000 years? Well the Ainu are arguably the direct decedents of the well published Jomon who lived throughout Japan. Jomon means corded marked, a name archeologist attributed to a civilization for the construction style of their pottery, which dates to the Neolithic revolution. The Ainu, however, maintain hunting and gathering as a primary means, agriculture is only to supplement their diet.
These disputes stemmed around the ownership of patents protecting technologies. The Japanese patent law is based on the first-to-file principle and is mainly given force by the Patent Act of Japan. The United States (U.S.) at the time used the first-to-invent patent system which states that when an inventor conceives of an invention and diligently reduces the invention to practice, the inventor's date of invention will be the date of conception and thus be provided the patent (Junghans & Levy, 2006). The fundamental differences in there two types of patent systems started a long and unsuccessful process of negotiations, technical meeting and independent analysis to determine which company invented the technology first. This lead to the Trade-Related aspects of Intellectual Property rights (TRIPS) component of the Uruguay Round of General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
Contents: * Hirohito’s early years * Rise to power * Dictatorship * Achievements and historian judgment * Japan defeated - End of the dictatorship * Death * Personal opinion * Resources “We have resolved to endure the endurable and suffer what is insufferable” Hirohito’s early years: Japan's longest-reigning monarch, Michinomiya Hirohito, was born on April 29, 1901, in the Ayoma Palace in Tokyo, Japan, the first of four sons of Crown Prince Yoshihito and Princess Sadako. His childhood title was Prince Michi. Although better known outside of Japan by his personal name Hirohito, in Japan he is now referred to primarily by his successive name Emperor Shōwa which translates to “Enlightened peace”. Following long-established custom, Hirohito was separated from his parents shortly after birth. He was cared for by a vice admiral in the imperial (of the empire) navy until November 1904, when he returned to the Akasaka Palace, his parents' official residence.
Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu The Tokugawa period began in 1603, this was when the warring states period of history is about to end (3.Tokugawa). Tokugawa Ieyasu consolidated his control of Japan at the battle of Sekigahara (1). In 1603, Ieyasu was appointed Shogun by the emperor. The administration of Japan was a task given by the imperial Court in Kyoto to the Tokugawa family. The Tokugawa continued to rule Japan for 265 years.
Alexandria Yost 10 March 2014 Mr. Bonvillion Geography History on Tokyo On the date July 8, 1853, The United States Commodore Matthew Perry led the Navy’s East India squad into Urada Harbor in Edo, modern-day Tokyo, Japan. That opened the Asian nation to western trade and influenced after more than 250 years of “isolation” under Tokugawa shogunate. With the arrival of Commodore Perry, the “Black Ships” started a chain of economic, political and social crises. After 160 years of the arrival of Perry, these maybe some things you may not know about Tokyo. First, Tokyo began as a village known as Edo.
For the Japanese there has been a trend of taking aspects of everyday life and detailing and abstracting them such that their original purpose and daily practicality is somewhat lost. From eating food, drinking tea and wearing clothes seemingly basic aspects of daily life have a history of becoming a delicate art to which full cultural dedication and lifetime studies were devoted. The Jōmon are one of the oldest known groups in Japan and are arguably the first society in the world to develop pottery and whose unique style gave the group its name Jōmon meaning ‘rope marked’ 1. Starting from about 11,000 BCE to 300 BCE the Jōmon are the longest prehistoric people to occupy Japan 2 with their largest mark on Japanese history being their detailed, unique and dramatic style of pottery found from the
Brendan Carvel Mr. Hellems/Mr. Chaput Global 9R 13 March 2013 The Relationship between North and South Korea “An almost tribal desire for reunification now permeates South Korean society, a legacy of the 13 centuries, ending in 1945, that Korea enjoyed as a unified political entity” (Olk 5). Before the 20th century, the Korean peninsula was an independent, unified country for 200 years (Olk 5). In 1910 Korea became a colony of the Japanese empire (Olk 6). “The era of Japanese colonialism in Korea (1910-1945) the country was split apart due to communist expansion in Korea.
Japan, which lies east of China and just under Korea, was no exception as it too fell under the gaze of the West. However Japan is regarded as an exceptional case in history, for it ‘opened its doors’ to these nations and learnt and adapted to their Western ways in order to emerge later as a stronger nation and world power. This paper seeks to exam the process through which Japan underwent during this transaction. The arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry in Uraga Bay, July 1853, saw the beginning of this process of rapid and bewildering change that would greatly alter the course of Japan’s history. In less than a century, Japan would transform itself into the first country outside of the West to possess a modern state, a modern industrial economy and involve itself in the politics of the world; Japan would become the first Imperial nation that wasn’t from the west.
Although it has appeared that man dominates the land, it’s actually the woman that is the center piece to keeping the flow of life very smooth. As to the mythical tale of the creation of Okinawa is of a Sun Goddess, Amamikyo, that descended down from heaven with her husband, Shinerikyo, to an island drifting on the waves, planted a tree, and claimed the land (Ames & Ashimine, 2000, p. 22). The Sun Goddess isn’t the only mythical legend in the history of Okinawa. The mother of King Satto, Tennyo, was believed to be an angel that was tricked into staying on earth due to Satto’s father hiding her robe of feathers so that she would not be able to return to heaven (Ames & Ashimine, 2000, p. 28). The myth gave Satto his legitimacy to the Mandate to Heaven and capable of ruling as king.
By being a foreign film, The Last Samurai allowed Japanese audiences to celebrate the nationalist messages taboo in a domestically produced film. Keywords: The Last Samurai, American Japan influence in motion pictures, mass media Japan audiences, bushido postwar reinterpretations, mass media culture in Japan 21st century ∗ Dr. Jayson Makoto Chun is an associate professor of history at the University of Hawai'i – West O'ahu, and his research interests include modern Japanese history, media culture and the use of Japanese popular media