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	About Japan: A Teacherâs Resource \| Japan Society
		Although the imperial court in Heian continued to claim authority, Kamakura was the seat of the warrior government known as the Kamakura bakufu, which dominated the political life of Japan during the period.
		The Kamakura period saw a relative decline in the power and influence of the imperial court and religious institutions in Kyoto and a countervailing growth in the influence of the Kamakura bakufu and its provincial vassal warriors.
		By the mid-sixteenth century Japan was thus headed by an impotent shogunate and fragmented into some 250 domains whose leaders scoffed at the authority of the bakufu and did all in their power to strengthen their own military forces and exploit the resources of land and manpower under their control.
	aboutjapan.japansociety.org /content.cfm/japans_medieval_age (7540 words)

	Japan - MSN Encarta
		The introduction of the Chinese political model in Japan is often attributed to Shōtoku Taishi, a member of the Yamato lineage and regent to the female ruler Suiko.
		In 710 the reorganized imperial court established a new Chinese-style capital at Heijō-kyō (the modern city of Nara).
		As the effective influence of the imperial court gradually waned from the 9th century through the 12th century, power in the provinces devolved to local warriors (bushi or samurai).
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761566679_15/Japan.html (2665 words)

	Japan. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Japan proper has four main islands, which are (from north to south) Hokkaido, Honshu (the largest island, where the capital and most major cities are located), Shikoku, and Kyushu.
		Japan has also become a global leader in financial services, with some of the world’s largest banks, but since the collapse of the stock and real estate markets in the early 1990s many of Japan’s banks have been burdened with high numbers of nonperforming loans.
		The old myths of imperial and racial divinity, rediscovered by scholars in the Tokugawa period, were revived, and the sentiment of loyalty to the emperor was actively propagated by the new government.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ja/Japan.html (5901 words)

	Japan: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.com
		An archipelago in the Pacific, Japan is separated from the east coast of Asia by the Sea of Japan.
		Japan surrendered formally on Sept. 2, 1945, aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
		On Japan and the Sovereign Ghost-State Hugh Byas, journalist-expert, and the manchurian incident
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107666.html (2013 words)

	UCLA Center for East Asian Studies: Meiji-era Japanese Constitution, 1889
		The Imperial Throne shall be succeeded to by Imperial male descendants, according to the provisions of the Imperial House Law.
		The expenditures of the Imperial House shall be defrayed every year out of the National Treasury, according to the present fixed amount for the same, and shall not require the consent thereto of the Imperial Diet, except in case an increase thereof is found necessary.
		When the Imperial Diet cannot be convoked, owing to the external or internal condition of the country, in case of urgent need for the maintenance of public safety, the Government may take all necessary financial measures, by means of an Imperial Ordinance.
	www.isop.ucla.edu /eas/documents/japan1889meijiconstitution.htm (2887 words)

	USARJ & 9th TSC Camp Zama, Japan - General Information
		Except for taxing authority, the power of the imperial government was weak, so in time the samurai seized control of the government and forced the emperor to name their leader "Shogun" or generalissimo.
		During the reign of the Tokugawa shoguns, all foreigners were expelled from the land and Japan was closed to trade with the rest of the world for 250 years.
		In 1869, after the overthrow of the shoguns, the capital was officially moved, along with the imperial residence, from Kyoto to Edo and the name of the city was changed from Edo to Tokyo.
	www.usarj.army.mil /information/japan/history.htm (588 words)

	About Japan: A Teacherâs Resource \| Japan Society
		All contenders for power in Japan recognized that the mandate to rule had been entrusted for all time to the imperial house not because of the emperor’s wisdom or military might, but rather by its divine descent from the Sun Goddess (Amaterasu).
		The imperial residence was a simple structure built of unpainted wood and roofed with cedar bark, but the official buildings were resplendent with Chinese style read pillars and green roof tiles.
		Despite attempts by various retired emperors to reassert control over their sons in the insei or cloistered government system, the weakness of the imperial court was now all too clearly shown.
	aboutjapan.japansociety.org /content.cfm/nara_and_heian_japan_710_ad_-_1185_ad_1 (2675 words)

	Behind the Chrysanthemum Curtain
		Japan's palace courtiers face big obstacles—in the form of tradition, politics, and their own code of behavior—as they struggle to create a modern role for the country's imperial family
		He is also a courtier who seems to be perennially caught in the middle as Japan's imperial system—a system at once delicate and durable—is pulled this way and that by the conflicting forces at work in Japan as a whole.
		The courtiers of Japan's royal house did not need the death of Princess Diana last year, and the anti-monarchical sentiment amid the mourning that ensued, to remind them that modern monarchies can be fragile institutions, venerable but also buffeted by the crosswinds of the moment.
	www.theatlantic.com /doc/199811/japanese-royals (1650 words)

	1996 AAS Abstracts: Japan Session 173
		Although the shogunate controlled parts of the imperial budget and the court is commonly thought to have declined to a threadbare state, imperial dependence on the shogunate was not complete.
		The various court ceremonies, traditions, and the existence of the emperor and the court itself, gave the Muromachi state the legitimacy that it needed to survive.
		Aspects of the conscious effort to glorify the imperial court are evident in the arts of the cultural milieu surrounding the emperors Goyôzei (1571-1617) and Gomizunoo (1596-1680).
	www.aasianst.org /absts/1996abst/japan/j173.htm (1278 words)

	Early Japan
		In the late sixteenth century, Japan began a process of reunification followed by a period of great stability and peace, in which contact with the outside world was limited and tightly controlled by the government.
		Reforms and bureaucratization of government led to the establishment of a permanent imperial capital at Heijokyo, or Nara, in A.D. The capital at Nara, which gave its name to the new period (710-94), was styled after the grand Chinese Tang Dynasty (618-907) capital at Chang'an and was the first truly urban center in Japan.
		Long-standing fears of the Chinese threat to Japan were reinforced, and the Korean Peninsula became regarded as "an arrow pointed at the heart of Japan." The Japanese victory, however, gave the bushi a sense of fighting superiority that remained with Japan's soldiers until 1945.
	www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/Japan.html (7153 words)

	Empire of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Imperial Japan allied with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy military and had similar goals in their respective world regions with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy's expansion in Europe and Imperial Japan's expansion in Asia.
		Japan was forced to import raw materials such as iron, oil, and coal to maintain strong growth in the industrial sector due to the lack of natural resources on Japan's home islands.
		Japan claimed that this invasion was a liberation of the Manchus from the Chinese, just as it had claimed that the annexation of Korea was an act of protection.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Imperial_Japan (6636 words)

	Japanese Culture - Royalty - The Imperial Family
		A combination of efforts to free the emperor from the web of entrenched bureaucracy and the court's increasing preoccupation with the pursuit of the arts and literature led to a situation where the real power was held by those occupying the posts of regent, for emperors not yet of age, and chief advisor.
		While the Tokugawa's ruled from Edo (now Tokyo), the imperial court was in Kyoto and performed duties that, while important to the shogunate, were mostly religious rituals.
		By 1868, they had succeeded in toppling the Tokugawa shogunate and establishing a new national government under direct imperial rule - the Meiji Restoration (analogies to this period of revolutionary change are often made by today's radical politicians).
	www.japan-zone.com /culture/imperial.shtml (1061 words)

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		They married daughters into the Imperial family to gain family ties then forced the emperor to abdicate at a time when the heir would be too young to rule.
		The Taira dominated the Imperial Court until the Minamoto clan drove them out with the same tactic of intermarriage the Fujiwara used years earlier.
		The Minamoto were a samurai clan that fought the Taira in 1185 for control of the Imperial Court.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~lgklau/week15/japan.htm (449 words)

	Gulfnews: Son rises in Japan
		Japan's Princess Kiko gave birth to a boy on Wedneday, the first imperial male heir to be born in more than four decades and the answer to the prayers of conservatives keen to keep women off the ancient throne.
		No imperial boys had been born since the baby's father, Prince Akishino, in 1965, raising the possibility of a succession crisis.
		The monarchy is dear to the hearts of nationalists and about 70 members of one group gathered near Tokyo's imperial palace to sing the national anthem and shout "Banzai" (Long Life) to the infant.
	www.gulfnews.com /world/Japan/10065495.html (1014 words)

	Ancient coins alter Japan's cash history
		The Fujiwarakyo court, which ruled much of Japan at the time, cast coins because it was in a position somewhat similar to the one Japan was in before the 1868 Meiji Restoration, reckoned Hiroyuki Kaneko of the institute.
		In 663, Japan's Imperial court, based in Naniwa (modern-day Osaka), sent 27,000 troops to the Korean Peninsula to aid Paekche, one of three kingdoms in ancient Korea, which was located in the southwestern part of the peninsula.
		The joint forces of Japan and Paekche were defeated in the Battle of Hakusonko by Tang dynasty forces who were assisting Silla, a Korean kingdom in the southeastern part of the peninsula.
	www.trussel.com /prehist/news103.htm (769 words)

	The Invention of a New Religion
		Enormous was the prestige thus accruing to Imperialism and to the rejuvenated Shinto cult.
		Imperial envoys were regularly sent after each great victory to carry the good tidings to the Sun Goddess at her great shrine at Ise.
		Courts; and it was the Northern Court, branded by later historians as usurping and illegitimate, that ultimately won the day, and handed on the Imperial regalia to its successors.
	hoary.org /scand/invent.html (4770 words)

	Asia Times Online - The trusted news source for information on Japan
		Yet this tradition is something of an artificial one, Japan has had eight empresses in the past, although the last one was back in the 18th century and none passed the throne on to her own child.
		The conservative Imperial Household Agency and the institution of the monarchy have to face some tough decisions that they have managed to skirt for a long time.
		Part of the joy at the news of Princess Nori's engagement was that she finally got married, which is seen as the ultimate objective for most women in Japan, and preferably before the age of 30.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/FL18Dh01.html (1210 words)

	Japanese imperialism
		Japan's expansion was, similar to other changes taking place, the result of emulation of and conflict with the Western countries.
		With many similarities to the West, Japanese imperialism differed from Western imperialism in that it was the first non-Western imperial power, and that it rose to imperial status after facing colonization by the West.
		Imperial expansion the last chance to win Western respect and ensure security and survival as a nation, and even bring civilization to other countries in Asia.
	www.indiana.edu /~hisdcl/G369_2002/japanese_imperialism.htm (795 words)

	Daigo, II Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Daigo II was apparently privy to an anti-Hojo plot that was uncovered in Kyoto in 1324, and in 1331 he actively encouraged an armed rising in the region of Kyoto that had to be put down by forces of the shogunate.
		The warrior class was in the ascendancy in Japan, and the imperial court, which was imbued with the governing techniques of an earlier age, was ill-equipped to meet its demands or to fulfill its needs.
		The government that Daigo II opened at Yoshino is known in history as the Southern court to distinguish it from the Northern court in Kyoto, and the period of opposition between the two, which lasted until 1392, is called the age of war between the courts.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/daigo-ii (892 words)

	Japanese music. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		It is orchestral music using the sho (a mouth organ, the Chinese sheng), the shakuhachi (a long flute), and the hichiriki (a small oboe).
		The cantillations of the Buddhist religion came to Japan by way of Korea in the 6th cent.
		Seiji Ozawa, a conductor of international reputation, was born in Japan.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ja/Japan-mus.html (627 words)

	thezensite: A Survey Of 12th Century Japanese Buddhism
		Although the imperial government made repeated attempts to halt the rapid increase in tax-exempt land, none of these attempts were successful.
		Thus, by the middle of the twelfth century, Japan's imperial court was controlled by hedonistic aristocrats who had almost no control over the rest of the country.
		The imperial government was weakened by the inattention of governmental officials to their posts and by the loss of revenue caused by the unchecked increase in tax-exempt lands.
	www.thezensite.com /ZenEssays/HistoricalZen/Survey_of_12thC_Japanese_Buddhism.htm (5089 words)

	The tale of Murasaki Shikibu.(the world's first modern novelist wrote 'The Tale of Genji' in Japan in 1001)(Brief ...
		The modern novel was born at the imperial court of Japan
		ALMOST exactly 1,000 years ago, a young woman in a small town in Japan began to write the story of an imagined prince who had just about everything--brains, looks, charm, artistic talent and the love of well- born ladies.
		He was Genji, "the shining one", so dear to his father, the emperor, that the latter reduced his rank to that of a commoner, to spare him the malice at court.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-58408697.html (181 words)

	Early Japan
		These governors, and their deputies, were in practice tax-collecting bodies for the Court, although in theory they carried Imperial authority in all domestic and military matters pertaining to their provinces.
		The court was not to avoid strife in its new home, due in part to an exceedingly pervasive influence held by the Buddhist clergy.
		By 720, the Imperial Court at Nara could claim influence as far as the remote Kanto region, but was faced with frequent emishi disturbances.
	www.samurai-archives.com /earlyjapan.html (4120 words)

	Courses \| Japanese Track \| East Asian Languages and Literatures Program \| Wellesley College
		A lightening rod for social change in Japan, even for modernity itself, representations of the girl illuminate the status of women, the changing role of the family, issues of ethnic and national identity, sexual orientation, and even Japan's relation to the outside world.
		New visitors to Japan are always struck by the persistence of traditional esthetics, arts, and values in a highly industrialized society entranced by novelty.
		Shortly after 1000 AD in the imperial court of Japan, Murasaki Shikibu, a court lady of middle rank, completed what is arguably the first novel in the history of world literature, The Tale of Genji.
	www.wellesley.edu /EALL/courses_j.html (1163 words)

	Japan, 500–1000 A.D. \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
		Encouraged by the imperial family and the powerful Fujiwara clan, who reign as imperial regents from the late ninth to the end of the eleventh century, literature,
		While this is the traditional account of the introduction of Buddhism into Japan, in actuality the Japanese court probably learned of the religion earlier from Korean and Chinese traders and immigrants.
		The practice of marrying their daughters to emperors and serving as regents to the resulting sons, who are frequently enthroned at a young age, forms the basis of Fujiwara influence.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/ht/06/eaj/ht06eaj.htm (1253 words)

	Japan history
		In fact, the Chinese imperial court is what inspired that Yamato clan to set up their very own imperial court in Japan.
		According to Japanese history, Yorimoto was the so-called shogun or the military dictator who ruled over Japan while the imperial courts still existed, it hid itself from the people – most especially its enemies like the samurai clan.
		After that, Japan has acquired a new system of ruling and rose to modern power where the country was able to establish an imperial army and a parliamentary form of government was formed back in 1889.
	123go.dothostpro.com /history.html (464 words)

	Kyoto History - Kyoto Travel Guide - Lonely Planet
		However, while the city was to serve as home to the Japanese imperial family from 794 to 1868 (when the Meiji Restoration took the imperial family to the new capital, Tokyo), from the 9th century the imperial family was increasingly isolated from the mechanics of political power.
		Despite the decline of the court, Kyoto continued to prosper economically.
		In 1868 the shogun resigned and Japan was again reunified, and began emerging from isolation.
	www.lonelyplanet.com /worldguide/japan/kyoto/history (782 words)

	Japan: The Emperor'’s Charter Oath, 1868
		The train of circumstances precipitated by the Perry and Harris missions to Japan culminated in 1868 with the deposition of the Shogun, signaling the end of the Tokugawa era.
		The new Japan restored the emperor to a position of dignity and influence after the imperial court's two-and-a-half century subjection to the shogunate.
		Attainment to offices of the first rank shall be limited to princes of the blood, court nobles and territorial lords, and shall be by virtue of [the sovereign’s] intimate trust in the great ministers of state.
	web.jjay.cuny.edu /~jobrien/reference/ob65.html (673 words)

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