Tag: Japan

  • US History Blog Posts Topics

    Remember that your writing should be a thoughtful response to the opinionated question. No fluffy bunnies or fence posts. Pick a side and describe your thoughts.

  • Asian Studies: Kamakura Japan.

    After taking  notes on the period students are too research the following questions. How did Minamoto no Yoritomo create the first Japanese Shogunate? How did Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism blend during the Kamakura period? Why did they evolve into Shintoism?

  • Asian Studies: Korea and Japan Map Quiz

    Russia: Vladivostok, Sakhalin Is, Sea of Oskhotsk DPRK: Pyongyang, Yalu R, Korea Bay RoK: Seoul, Pusan, Cheju Is, Korean Strait Japan Islands: Kyushu, Shikoku, Honshu, Hokkaido, Ryukyu Is, Okinawa        Cities: Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Kyoto, Osaka, Tokyo-Yokohama, Fukushima, Sendai, Sapporo Sea of Japan, Pacific O, East China Sea, Philippine Sea

  • Asian Studies Research Readings: 1900-1930

    Research the following terms and explain how they led to the development of the following ideas Creation of the Modern Japanese Empire Creation and Collapse of the Chinese Republic Occupation of Korea by Japan

  • Asian History: Meiji Restoration

    Students began watching excerpts from The Last Samurai. The focus of the viewing is to see the difference between the modernization process of Japan and the ancient lifestyle of rural japan and the Samurai Landowning class. Students are to answer the following questions: How do the Emperor‘s Counselors minimize the role of the Samurai class and…

  • Book Review: Hiroshima

    Hiroshima by John Hersey My rating: 4 of 5 stars When I first read Hiroshima, as a junior in high school, my thoughts traveled to images of war torn towns. The violence of Saving Private Ryan had not yet been unleashed, but we knew violence as a concept not a whole. I am a child…