Effects of World War II
World War II drastically affected the Japanese culture, economics, and politics.
Japan is considered one of the most important and powerful countries in the modern world but this accomplishment has been reached by a lot of work and changes made in the Japanese society. During World War II the destruction of Japanese cities and the death of a lot of Japanese people caused them to change their in their system of politics and foreign policy. The changes made in Japan were not only in the politics but also in the culture in general because of the entrance of western ideas into Japan after World War II made the Japanese adapt their ancient culture to some of the western culture.
These changes in their culture made the Japanese a whole new country and made it more open to foreign ideas and costumes. The efforts to recover from the was led the Japanese to have a strict and competitive view in technological and scientific advances. Now the Japanese people are considered as one of the most working and intelligent human beings, because of their brightness in the technology and scientific advances. The Japanese had a really difficult path to go through after World War II, but the people adapted to the new Japan and tried to make it a better place by being very strict and competitive. After the changes in Japan the Japanese people have shown that they are capable of a lot of things specially having an enormous change in their life such as culture, economics, technology and politics. This kind of change in any society is a very difficult task to undertake and not too many countries are able to do it. The effects of World War II, including the destruction of Japan, was the task for the Japanese and they were very strong and worked themselves out of the problems and succeeded in the modern world and now Japan is considered the fragile superpower in the top world.
The destruction of Japanese cities and the death of a lot of Japanese people caused them to change in their system of politics and foreign policy. Before World War II Japan was very closed minded in their way of thinking and the people were not important in the political and economic decisions of the country and that was because there was a decline of the political parties because of corruption and with that decline the military leaders caused struggles to the country. Also the Japanese foreign policy was very independent and only gave priority to its expansion to the south. This situation totally changed after World War II, Japan changed totally its politics and established a different government, ran by the different points of view of the people, that sought more freedom in their society. ³The Japanese Constitution of 1946, pledge to uphold the high ideals of peace and democratic order with the international society and also the banishment of tyranny and slavery, oppression and intolerance for all² (The Japan of Today, 15). This citation shows the change in the Japanese after World War II. In this constitution the Japanese created a more democratic country and also a very opened minded constitution because before World War II, the Japanese were very close minded and that led them to have problems with other countries that had different views of things that the Japanese. . There are other aspects that changed after World War II and on of those are the return of Parliamentary government to Japan. (Japan:The Fragile Superpower, 268) After the War Japan regained its independence but it gave up Korea, Taiwan, South Jakhalin, and the Kurils. This situation meant that Japan reduced its lands after the war. In foreign policy, Japan became a peaceful country that obviously helped it to be now a successful country without many foreign problems. World War II opened the eyes of the Japanese people to a more open world, with democratic ideas, that everyday sought for more freedom and rights for the citizens. After World War II the Japan-US relation has strengthened, they work together
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