Unit 4: Japan and Korea
Essential Questions
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Geography can influence a country’s development in both positive and negative ways. Describe
two advantages and two disadvantages of Japan’s geography. Explain three ways in which
geography influenced Japan’s development.
2. The Japanese have a history of selectively borrowing from other cultures. Describe two ideas
from another culture that helped shape traditional Japan. Explain two ways in which cultural
borrowing affected Japan in the period after 1868.
3. Who were the three great unifiers of feudal Japan? How did each gain power and centralize the
government?
4. Describe the culture of the samurai? What philosophy guided the actions of the samurai? What
events eventually lead to the downfall of the samurai class in Japanese society?
5. What are the main beliefs of the Shinto religion?
6. Describe the Meiji restoration? What were the goals of the Meiji? How did the government
change and modernize so quickly?
7. What was the economic miracle? In what industries does Japan lead the world today?
8. Describe two ways that Chinese culture influenced Korea.
9. North Korea and South Korea have taken different paths to development. Describe one
difference in the political systems of the two nations. Explain what economic system each
nation has used to achieve economic development.
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Osaka
Kyoto
Shotoku Taishi
Nara Period
Heian Period
Samurai
Bushido
Kamakura Shogunate
Minamoto Yoritomo
Shogun
Daimyo
Shinto
Zen
Murasaki Shikibu
Yi Song-gye
Matthew Perry
Edo Bay
Millard Fillmore
Concessions
Meiji Restoration
Mutsuhito
Prefectures
Zaibatsu
Ito Hirobumi
Russo-Japanese War
World War II
Atomic Bomb
State Capitalism
Economic Miracle