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Feudal Japan
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Japan went into a period of isolation from the world
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This period saw growing urbanization, the spread of popular education and the rise of the merchant class.
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The Japanese broke ties with all foreigners for the next two hundred years
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Japan dosn't let outsiders into their country.
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Peace was finally established by the 17th century.
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Even after peace was established, they samurai would still wear their swords as a sign of rank.
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United States commodore Matthew Perry enters Japan. He demands that Japan trade with the U.S.
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constitutional policy with the emperor as reigning monarch; industrialization, urbanization, and an increasingly mobile society
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; rapid modernization and dramatic change of political, social, and economic institutions; meeting the challenge of the West by following its model.
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Japan takes over the Korean peninsula and rules it for 35 years, until 1945.
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Japan declarws war on Germany starting World War 1
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Democratic reform under Allied occupation; stable political democracy, high economic growth in the sixties and seventies followed by political instability and recession in the early nineties.