Japan Country Overview
Japan is an archipelago located in an arc around the Sea of Japan in the very east of Asia and consisting of 3,000 large and small islands, including the 4 largest ones: Hokkaido, Honshu,...
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State Structure and Political System of Japan
The post-war democratization of Japan was expressed, among other things, in the formation of a multi-party system. Currently, the most significant parties are: LDP, Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), New Komeito (NC), Conservative Party...
Japan Population and Economic Conditions
Population Although at the 1995 census the population of Japan had almost reached 125.6 million residents (which rose in 1998, according to United Nations estimates, to 126.6 million), in recent years the population growth has shown a further slowdown compared to...
Japan During The Ashikaga Part II
Among Nobunaga’s generals we find another of the greatest figures in Japanese history: Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536-98). Of humble birth, he had entered his service at a very young age and was immediately appreciated for...
Japan During The Ashikaga Part I
Preparing to take up the legacy of the Minamoto by settling in the office of shōgun, which was to remain for 235 years to the members of his family, Takauji had first settled in...
Japan Cinematography – from the Origins to the World War II Part II
An important, albeit short-lived, current of silent Japanese cinema was that of the keikō eiga (trend film), which developed at the turn of the twenties and thirties, following the spread of the Marxist ideology...
Japan Cinematography – from the Origins to the World War II Part I
Thomas A. Edison’s kinetoscope was introduced in Japan in November 1896. In February of the following year it was already the turn of the Cinématographe by the brothers Louis and Auguste Lumière. The first...
Japan Brief History Part V
In 1998 Hashimoto was replaced by K. Ōbuchi, whose government enacted further financial reforms. After Ōbuchi’s death (2000), Y. Mori was appointed prime minister, whose government was overwhelmed the following year by a series...
Japan Brief History Part IV
The democratic transformation After the surrender, the Japan was placed under the occupation of the United States through the Supreme Command of the allied forces, led by General D. MacArthur, who used Japanese politicians and...
Japan Brief History Part III
The rapid process of nationalization of the Japanese people played in favor of the Meiji oligarchy, facilitated by the use of collective stereotypes: the identification between nation and race, the revival of the emperor...