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JAPAN HISTORY
While geography is not
destiny, the fact that Japan is located on islands on the outermost edge of Asia
has had a profound influence on Japan's history. Just close enough to mainstream
Asia, yet far enough to keep itself separate, much of Japanese history has been
the alternation of periods of closure and openness. Until recently, Japan has
been able to turn on or off its connection to the rest of the world,
internalizing foreign cultural influences in fits and starts. It is comparable
with the relationship between Britain and the rest of Europe, but with a much
wider channel.
Shinto is the older animist religion of traditional Japan. At just over twelve
hundred years in Japan, Buddhism is the more recent imported faith. These two
religions have intertwined and influenced each other and Japanese culture. You
can continue to find them side by side in cities, towns, and peoples lives.
The capital of the country has moved over the centuries from Nara to Kyoto and
now Tokyo. Likewise, Japan has seen a range of political structures from periods
of divinely endowed Imperial rule, feudal warring clans, the shogunate as
military police state, a restored Imperial house, a one party democracy, and the
current unsettled state of political affairs. One constant is the Imperial
family, the oldest continuous royal family in the world.
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