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Did China have a caste system?
China’s system of hokou—home registration—has regimented the nation into two distinct and unequal castes.
Why was China subject to unequal treaties in the nineteenth century?
The agreements reached between the Western powers and China following the Opium Wars came to be known as the “unequal treaties” because in practice they gave foreigners privileged status and extracted concessions from the Chinese.
How many castes are there in Japan?
(a) In Japan there are only two castes, heimin and burakumin with the latter not more than 2 per cent of the total Japanese population.
How does the class system work in Japan?
Public schools in Japan have classes five days a week, from Monday to Friday. In junior high and high schools, there are six class periods each day, typically lasting 50 minutes for each. After classes, students clean the classrooms in shifts and then start their club activities.
Is the caste system abolished in Japan?
But still we see that caste system is not abolished. First of all, neither Japan ended the caste system, nor China. But they ended the discrimination against the castes which are at lower most position in the hierarchy.
Who was the aggressor in the Sino-Japanese War?
Japan was the aggressor, occupying Manchuria in northern China in 1931. A wider war began in 1937, and by the time Japan surrendered in 1945, millions of Chinese had died. A notorious massacre occurred in the city of Nanjing, which was the capital under the Kuomintang government. Atrocities were also carried out in other Asian countries.
How did China become a major Asian power in the 20s?
Thereafter, the Japanese started to modernize themselves and became a major Asian power in the 20th century. China had its own humiliating experience that should have jolted it into similar action like Japan. It was the first Opium War with the British.
When did Western nations force Japan to end isolationism?
Western nations didn’t force Japan to end its isolationism until the 1850s, more than a decade after the beginning of the First Opium War in China.