Welcome to Contemporary U S and World History

Welcome to Contemporary U. S. and World History Pg Assignment 70 China Reading Date 5/28 71 China Reading Notes 5/28 72 Asia’s Missing Girls 5/30 73 Japanese Education System 5/30 Comparison Chart 74 (education) 5/30 75 Japan Power Point Notes 6/3 76 Changing Face of America 6/3 Date: 6/3/13 Activity: Modern Japan Warm Up: -Homework: • • • Changing Face of America due tomorrow Quiz Wednesday (Africa, China, Japan) Study Guide due Wednesday

MODERN JAPAN

JAPAN: FROM ASHES TO ECONOMIC SUPERPOWER • AT THE END OF WW II MOST OF JAPAN’S CITIES & INDUSTRIES LAY IN RUINS • U. S. ACTED QUICKLY TO DEMOCRATIZE JAPAN & HELP IT RECOVER: – HUMANITARIAN REASONS – STRATEGIC REASONS (CONTAIN COMMUNISM) • IT SET JAPAN ON A COURSE AWAY FROM MILITARISM & IMPERIALISM

FROM FASCISM TO DEMOCRACY • JAPAN BECAME A DEMOCRACY BUT THE EMPEROR WAS RETAINED AS A FIGUREHEAD OF STATE • JAPAN’S POST-WAR CONSTITUTION PROHIBITED THE USE OF OFFENSIVE MILITARY FORCE • LAND REFORMS WERE MADE

ROAD TO RECOVERY • WITH U. S. AID JAPANESE INDUSTRY GREW RAPIDLY. • AUTOMOBILE & ELECTRONICS INDUSTRIES WERE ESPECIALLY SUCCESSFUL. • JAPANESE INVESTORS BECAME INFLUENTIAL IN THE ECONOMIES OF THE U. S. & OTHER NATIONS.

A MODEL OF SUCCESS? • REASONS FOR JAPAN’S ECONOMIC SUCCESS: – PRODUCING FOR EXPORT – MODERN EFFICIENT FACTORIES – TECHNOLOGY – HIGH SAVINGS RATE – MINIMAL DEFENSE EXPENDITURES – UNITY OF PURPOSE AMONG INDUSTRY, LABOR & GOVERNMENT – A DISCIPLINED & EDUCATED WORKFORCE

EDUCATION IN JAPAN

ECONOMIC ZENITH • BY THE 1980 s JAPAN HAD BECOME AN ECONOMIC SUPERPOWER: – SECOND ONLY TO THE U. S. – HUGE TRADE DEFICITS IN FAVOR OF JAPAN – STRAINED RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO NATIONS

HAS THE RISING SUN SET? • JAPAN’S ECONOMY DROPPED SHARPLY AFTER 1990 • JAPAN’S ECONOMIC PROBLEMS INCLUDE: – A DECLINING & AGING POPULATION – COMPETITION FROM EMERGING NATIONS (I. E. CHINA & KOREA). SHARE OF U. S. TRADE DEFICIT

MARCH 2011 EARTHQUAKE • MARCH 11, 2011: – MOST POWERFUL EARTHQUAKE EVER TO HIT JAPAN – LED TO A TSUNAMI THAT SWEPT OVER THE NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTRY • JAPAN ALSO FACES THE WORLD’S WORST NUCLEAR EMERGENCY SINCE CHERNOBYL: – THREE REACTORS SUFFERED PARTIAL MELTDOWNS – FUEL RODS AT ANOTHER REACTOR OVERHEATED AND RELEASED RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL INTO THE ATMOSPHERE • STATISTICS AS OF APRIL 7, 2011: – – DEATH TOLL = 12, 600 14, 700 PEOPLE LISTED AS MISSING MORE THAN 160, 000 PEOPLE IN TEMPORARY SHELTERS TENS OF THOUSANDS EVACUATED THEIR HOMES DUE TO THE NUCLEAR CRISIS

NUCLEAR DISASTER

EFFECTS OF THE NUCLEAR CRISIS

ECONOMIC EFFECTS