Japan and the West

From the moment Japan opened a port to a western ship, Japanese nationwide came to keep up with Western technology, ideas and beliefs. However, they quickly noticed that the national and cultural identity of Japan is rapidly disappearing. This is a conducive to a seemingly complex Western idea. Between 1868 and 1912 in the Meiji Era, it was a major point in the fusion of Japanese and Western style. During this period, the novelist wrote many pieces detailing the transition from tradition to modernity. For example, the core and core values ​​of progress and core life, and the advantages and results of old-fashioned values.

After the west was opened in 1854, some of the works of this style were written in Japanese in Aboriginal Japanese; they included Bushido: Japanese soul, Nitobe rice cake (1900) Samurai Warrior, and Okakura Kura 's Tea Book (1906). It contains the philosophical meaning of the Japanese tea ceremony. Western observers are also often trying to evaluate Japanese society with varying degrees of success and one of the most famous and controversial works created by Ruth Benedict is chrysanthemums and swords ( It is 1946).

From 1904 to 1905 Japan defeated Russia in the Russo-Japanese War, indicating that Japan is a major country in the world, Tsarist Russia is in its final stage. The Japanese army attacked North Korea and Russians in Manchuria, unexpectedly destroyed the Russian Navy Fleet and won. The Japanese lost 60,000 people and the Russians lost 30,000 people. The general expressed the war as "a mountain of the body". In the early years of the war, Russia was considered as one of the world's superpowers, and the Japanese army was still considered a second grade. Most people think that Russia is easy to win. Some people think conflict is the first modern war. It is at least the first modern naval battle, among which cannons and remote guns face each other. However, it is also a war of old-fashioned military exercises such as Cossack's condemnation, expansion and contraction of ancient walls, careful courtesy between commanders.

Japan was able to acquire and refine various scientific knowledge, but the rapid industrialization in the western part of the 18th century caused a significant gap between technology and weapons between Japan and the West. Donation ended. Western invasion increased during the early 19th century. Russian warships and traders invaded Kalilto (known as Sakhalin Island under the rule of Russia and the Soviet Union) and the Kuril Islands, the southernmost point of which was regarded by Japan as an island in Hokkaido in Hokkaido. In 1808 British warships entered Nagasaki Port and discovered enemy ships of the Netherlands, and in the 1810s and 1820s other warships and whaling boats of the Sea of ​​Japan appeared more frequently. Whaling and trade ships from the USA also arrived on the coast of Japan.