After human civilization, Japanese and Chinese had at least 2,000 years of neighborhood relations.
Many scholars believe that the Japanese civilization is a sub-civilization derived from the influence of the Chinese Qin Dynasty civilization. From the beginning of the Qin Dynasty, the influence of ancient Chinese civilization on Japan reached its peak all the way to the Tang Dynasty. This is not Chinese arrogant, Japan's thousand-year-old city of Kyoto (the capital of Japan before the Meiji Restoration), was built during the Tang Dynasty to imitate the capital of China at that time, Chang'an City, Kyoto is equivalent to one-fifth of the size of the Tang Dynasty Chang'an City, interested friends can go to Japan to see.
However, this influence continued until the rise of marine civilizations, which began to gradually decline. The landmark was the Meiji Restoration in 1868, when Japan began to learn from Western industrial society, and a year later moved from pedantic Kyoto to Tokyo, which represented the emerging economy. Since then, we have been more influenced by Japan than Japan has been influenced by us, and trade and cultural exports have been in deficit so far.
The most intuitive phenomenon is that the Chinese consumer market is full of Japanese cars, Japanese electronics, Japanese animation, Japanese novels, Japanese dramas..... Even AV.
In recent years, China's full rise, in the technology and cultural industries continue to invest and support, independent culture in full bloom, now children are basically watching domestic animation grew up, teenagers also have TFboy such a domestic idol group, TV stations are basically in the domestic TV series, such as Huawei such domestic brands, overseas also showed a strong performance.
So, are today's Young Japanese "admiring the outside world"? Here's a video panel of Japanese media interviews on the streets of Tokyo this year:
From the above interview, it can be seen that today's Young Japanese people still yearn for the United States, on the one hand, it is related to the development of the United States, and on the other hand, it is inseparable from the history of Japanese immigration to the United States.
A 20th-century Japanese writer once said, "If you want to see Japan in the Taisho era, go to Brazil." If you want to see Japan in the Meiji era, please go to the United States. ”
Japanese immigration to the United States began in the late 19th century, when Japan was in the midst of a period of great social change during the Meiji Restoration. The warlord rule of the Tokugawa family was overthrown in 1868 and replaced not only by a new set of political leaders, but also with a new set of values and national ambitions, which was the beginning of modern Japan.
In the long history of human civilization, Japan was one of the countries with the least sense of existence. The first Encyclopædia Britannica of the 18th century devoted a one-sentence description of Japan, indicating only the latitude and longitude of its location.
It was not until the middle of the 19th century that General Perry led a U.S. Navy into Tokyo Bay, inducing the Japanese government to sign an equality treaty, which woke up the self-contained Japanese, which was an enlightening event for the rise of modern Japan and the fuse before the beginning of the Meiji Restoration, referred to as the Black Ship Incident.
Since then, Japan has made up its mind to catch up with and surpass the West, and Japan's feelings for the West at that time were complex, both hated and appreciated. Japan began offering English classes in secondary schools in 1876 and allowed the establishment of Christian churches and schools. Government-issued textbooks used Franklin and Lincoln Tree as models to teach Japanese children to learn from them.
During the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese also squeezed their heads and immigrated to the United States, otherwise there would not be 1.5 million Japanese americans in the United States. Although the number of Japanese Americans is only one-third that of Chinese, the total population of Japan is less than one-tenth of China.00
The early Japanese who immigrated to the United States were not like some ethnic groups at home who were at the bottom of society, and although these Japanese did not come from very wealthy families, they almost came to the United States with a skill.
In Japan, as in many other countries, the experiences of the first immigrants greatly influenced the migration patterns of later generations until after World War II. For example, 90% of immigrants from the post-war Japanese village of Sanbu to Canada settled in a specific part of the country. More than 90 percent of Okinawans who emigrated to the United States went to Hawaii, and only 8 percent went to the U.S. mainland. This is very similar to the pattern of Chinese Fujianese emigrating overseas.
Japanese Americans today earn more than the average white American. Japanese-Americans are highly educated, and their attainments in technology, engineering, and academia are higher than the average whites, similar to those of Chinese.
Among the many ethnic groups that have immigrated to the United States in history, few have been as persistent as the Japanese and strive to be the most exemplary American citizens.
However, in the history of emigration to the United States, Japanese Americans have also experienced great tribulations and tests.
In the early morning of December 7, 1941, Japanese militarists launched the shocking Pearl Harbor attack. Japan also became the only country in history to truly invade the modern United States. Although eventually defeated by the Americans, the Japanese suffered great rejection and hostility from American society during the period before and after World War II. In 1941, there was a frenzy of anti-Japanese in the United States, where Japanese shops were smashed and robbed, farms were sold cheaply, and industries run by Japanese people for generations were liquidated within a week, and about 15,000 Japanese were arrested and sent to concentration camps for loyalty review. The manhunt was openly supported by Japanese leaders who viewed the pro-Japanese stance of their elders as unfaithful to the United States and a threat to the survival of ordinary Japanese Americans in American society.
concentration camp
The price paid by japanese Americans was that, in order to show their loyalty to the United States, 300,000 Japanese Americans joined the army and rushed to the European battlefields of World War II, and their regiment was called the 442nd Regiment. In the battle against the Nazi army, 9,000 Japanese soldiers were killed, these people received 9482 Purple Sun Medals, once in order to save 200 soldiers of the Texas Brigade, paid the price of 700 killed, in gratitude for the dedication of the Japanese American troops, Texas stipulated that every Japanese soldier of the 442 regiment is an honorary citizen of Texas. The 442nd Regiment is the most honored corps in U.S. history.
442 Regiment
In the Pacific Theater, thousands of Japanese soldiers served as translators to crack intelligence codes, and it can be said that it was with these Japanese soldiers that accelerated the end of World War II. In 1988, the Reagan administration apologized to Japanese americans imprisoned in concentration camps and gave $20,000 in state compensation to each victim.
Since then, Japanese Americans have also frequently appeared prominent figures, such as:
Japanese architect Horu Yamazaki designed Princeton University's Wood Wilson School, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, St. Louis Airport, and Seattle's World Expo.
S.I. Hayakawa was a well-known linguist who wrote Language and Life, and later became president of San Francisco State College and later elected to the U.S. Senate.
In 1959, Daniel M. K. Inoue, a Japanese-American hero who lost an arm in World War II and was promoted to officer on the battlefield, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and later to the U.S. Senate, where he remained until his death in 2012.
In 1976, the state of Hawaii elected Matsu naga masayuki to the U.S. Senate. He is the third Japanese-American senator. Japanese, who make up less than 0.5% of the population, have produced 3 senators, representing 3% of the members of the Senate!
In 1999, Eric Shin-Kwan remained the 34th Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, retiring in 2003. Currently the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, he is a third-generation Japanese-American soldier and the first Asian-American to receive the honor of four-star general.
In 2014, David Egger beat incumbent Governor Neil Abercrombie to win the Democratic primary, winning the election with 49.5 percent of the vote as governor of Hawaii. He will run for re-election in 2018.
Changes in Japanese Americans today
Japanese Americans are increasingly localized. In 1970, about 12 percent of married Japanese men and one-third of married female spouses were of other ethnic groups. In Los Angeles in the early 1970s, about half of Japanese-American marriages were of other ethnicity.
The academic performance of Japanese-American students is now inferior to that of their predecessors, and a new generation of Japanese-Americans is getting closer and closer to the level of white American students in terms of grades.
Perhaps the most ironic part of the history of Japanese immigration to the United States is that one of the areas where Japan sent the most immigrants to the United States was Hiroshima (who later dropped the atomic bomb in World War II).
Having said that so many Japanese immigrated to the United States, is there a story of Americans running to Japan?
Leah Dizon (born September 24, 1986 in Las Vegas, Nevada) was a model car. Later went to Japan to develop and married a Japanese, and later divorced...
Leah Dizon
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