dominoeffect		Payments for damages during a war which the Japanese made to countries it conquered during WWII
commoner		The .8% minority of Japan
Meijirestoration		Way of the warrior, where a samurai was loyal to is lord above all.
daimyo		Bombed 8/9/45 by US forces.
arrangedmarriages		What a warrior would do if he brought shame to his family.
GreatDepression		A time period when the emperor took power back from the shogun
bushido		A Samurai with property.
Kanagawa		A way of life where social order, duty and loyalty or important.
Macarthur		When a country imports more than it exports to another country.
Confucianism		The Japanese soldiers who carried out suicide missions in WWII.
cooperation		"Cram" schools in Japan.
tradeimbalance		Descended from the sun goddess.
Ainu		The Chinese selection of a ruler which the Japanese did not believe in since the Japanese emperor was thought of as a god.
militarism		Lowest class in the Japanese feudal system.
juku		The general in charge of ending militarism and building democracy in Japan
seppuku		The idea that the military and war should be glorified.
emperor		The concept that social ideas came from China and the West.
Shinto		Family controlled industry.
reparations		Global economic collapse- hit Japan between 1929-31.
culturaldiffusion		A religion where spirits dwell in all natural things and control the forces of nature.
zaibatsu		Japanese family alliances
Indochina		The northern most island of Japan.
Hokkaido		US military base bombed in 1941 by the Japanese.
Nagasaki		The leader of the Emperor's army.
kamakazi		Commadore who forced the Japanese to trade with the US.
kana		Companies were encouraged by the government to do this instead of competition.
Perry		The town after which the first of many unequal treaties were signed between the US and Japan
MandateofHeaven		SE Asian region taken by Japan from France prior to WWII
PearlHarbor		The written Japanese language where characters are connected to pronounciation
Shogun		The spread of communism from one country to another.