Japan Vocab

a social system in which people worked and fought for nobles who gave them protection and the use of land

• Feudalism

• Diet

• Emperor

• Ring of Fire

leader of Japan, considered to be a descendant of the gods

• emperor

• Feudalism

• shogun

• modernization

supreme "military commander", leader of a powerful clan that owned land

• Daimyo

• emperor

• shogun

• Kamikaze

landowning nobles who controlled territory; below shogun; employed samurai

• samurai

• Daimyo

• shogun

• isolationism

military nobility/warrior class of medieval Japan - all about discipline and service

• samurai

• clans

• shinto

• Pearl Harbor

large families that were in charge of villages in ancient Japan - one leader

• shoguns

• samurai

• Ring of Fire

• clans

indigenous religion of Japan = 80% of population practices

• Buddhism

• Judaism

• Shinto

• Christianity

spirits that exist in every element of Japan

• kami

• Ring of Fire

• emperor

• feudalism

rim of the Pacific Ocean that has many volcanic eruptions and earthquakes

• kami

• modernization

• Ring of Fire

• clans

period in Japan's history when it closed itself off to the rest of the world

• isolationnism

• modernization

• kamikaze

• industrialization