Word: shogunate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a tough, imperialistic warrior shogun, was the first Japanese to dream of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. As an anchor for his international conquests, Hideyoshi chose Osaka, built a castle there in the latter part of the 16th Century. Hideyoshi and Osaka got along fine, and ever since then Osaka's merchants have done their best to keep alive his spirit. They gambled when the gambling was good, hedged only when they had to. They became and remain to this day the financial lords of Japan...
...quarter of a century later, Hideyoshi's successor as shogun, arch-isolationist Tokugawa Ieyasu, built a stronghold at Nagoya, 100 miles northeast of Osaka, Ieyasu wanted neither conquest nor foreign trade; he clamped the lid on Japan, and his family kept it there for 300 years. Like Osaka, Nagoya grew up in the image of its maker. Nagoyans put classical poems, flower arrangements and the complex subtleties of the Japanese tea ceremony ahead of commerce and industry; they dislike to hustle; there is still a feeling that trade is somewhat vulgar...
...Reactionary Shogun Party...
...other for prime ministers or maharajas. The king wields no political power. As a reincarnation of Vishnu, he is chiefly a religious figure. Real power is in the hands of the Rana family, which furnishes the maharajas. The relationship resembles that in old Japan between the Emperor and the Shogun...
...better than cattle or horses" under shogun rule, Japan's peasants rose up in more than 1,100 revolts. Similarly, Japanese labor, exploited for ages by the Zaibatsu and worked literally to death by the military, would welcome an enlightened, Allied-encouraged government. "In addition, there are countless numbers of small shopkeepers and peasants who have been squeezed dry for a victory which never came...