Monday, July 19, 2010

Reflection: Blog 13

9.4.5 Reflect: What economic factors led to Japanese expansion and extreme nationalism?

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  1. Two important economic factors was the high taxes and wealth of the merchants, allowing the government to raise money in taxes and loans. More important was the destruction of European silkworms, raising the price of silk and forcing other countries to buy Japanese silk. This allowed the first industry to be weaving with power looms and other machines. Then the government used funds to mechanize more factories and selling these to families. Traditional loyalties insured companies run by zaibatsu, family groups, and cooperation between companies. Industrializing helped expansion, but it also grew a military dictatorship. When a depression hit, Japan's trade dependent economy suffered. Unemployment and general unrest toppled the government, backed by extreme nationalism.
    -Rachel White

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  2. Economic factors that led to Japanese expansion and extreme nationalism are that Japan decided to modernize their economy and industrialize. They visited the West to learn new technologies and invited foreign experts to teach their people. To make money, they taxed peasants and borrowed from merchants. A certain natural disaster and a silkworm disease both brought unexpected economic boosts. In 1900 they were a modern industrial nation and they expanded. They were fine until the depression hit and they became a military dictatorship.

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  4. Economic factors that led to Japanese expansion and extreme nationalism are that Japan modernized their economy and started their industrial revolution. When the visited the west the learned new things and new technology and invited experts from other countries to learn from them.

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  5. SOme economic factors that led to Japanese expansion and extreme nationalism were the high taxes and the fact that the Meiji leadership promoted the catch phrase of "Enrich the Country and Strengthen the Military" which tells the people to work for the greater good of Japan

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  6. economic factors that led to expansion and nationalism are high taxes and the industrial revolution
    -reece ticotin

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  7. Two economic factors that led to expansion and nationalism were the industrialization and high taxes. The government sent people to the west to modernize their industries and culture but to do so needed money for the government hence the high taxes.
    -Alyssa Weakley

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  8. There were many economic factors that led to Japanese expansion and extreme nationalism. One was that they decided to industrialize, and to do that Japan sent their people to the West to learn about new technologies. Japan also invited experts from other countries to teach their people. When disease began killing off silkworms in Europe, Japan gained a large economic boost, and silk became its main export. High taxes and wealthy merchants also helped the government gain money to fund their industries. The Great Depression in the US greatly affected Japan, bringing unemployment and unhappy people. This caused a military dictatorship to take over.

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  9. The factors that led to Japanese expansion and nationalism are industralization and high taxes.
    -sammi westfall

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  10. Economic factors that lead to Japanese expansion and extreme nationalism were: When the Menji restoration happened, the emperor insisted that Japan modernize itself to catch up or to even get ahead of the world. Japanese studied customs of the US and brought them back to Japan and learned from them. This allowed Japan to start expansion now that it had modernized. Japans expansion is thanks to its strong sense of national unity and its tradition of self-sacrifice and hard work. To nationalize, the emperor raised taxes. They were lucky and because of a disease that killed silkworms Japan became rich off of the high prices of silk.

    -Jasmine Salamat-amoli

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  11. High taxes and industrialization lead to Japans expansion and nationalism.

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  12. Some economic factors that led to expansion and nationalism are high taxes and the industrial revolution.-Lauren Teebor

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  13. well, not copying the ppl above you's good and all, but that's kinda hard...economic factors leading to japanese expansion and extreme nationalism include high taxes, raised silk profits, and industrialization (taken f/ europeans). general unrest about the high taxes and the emperor's powerless-ness (?) caused a rebellion, and the deeply imprinted samurai thing led to a military dictatorship. the japanese were always pretty...nationalistic?

    --Victoria Wang

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  14. Many economic factors lead to expansion and nationalism. Japan learned industrial methods from the people of the West and began to build on them and industrialize. Silk brought in a lot of money when disease killed off many of the silkworms in Europe. Higher taxes also helped the government.

    Amneh Yacoub

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  15. There were many economoic factors that led to expansion and nationalism, but here are just a few. High taxes, industrial methods, raised silk profits, and industrialzation.

    -Rachel Valance

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  16. economic factors that led to expansion and nationalism were that people were taxed heavily and there was an industrial revolution
    -max weiss

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  17. Economic factors that led to expansion and nationalism are high taxes,industrial methods, the the silk profits were raised.

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  18. economic factors that led to expansion and nationalism are high taxes and the industrial revolution

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  19. Some economic factors that led to Japanese expansion and extreme national was the high taxes and the industrial revolution. The industrial revolution was what helped them expand further and further. The high taxes were what set them up as extreme nationalists.

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  20. The industrial revolution and Japan's sense of national unity led to expansion. A depression led to extreme nationalism.

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  21. Economic factors that led to Japanese expansion and extreme nationalism are Japan modernized their economy and started industrializing. They visited the west to learn new things and about new technology.

    ~Alexis Strauss

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  22. Japan's expansion and extreme nationalism were effects of the industrial revolution and of high taxes. They both pushed Japan to do better things for their country.

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  23. Economic factors caused Japan to expand and led to extreme nationalism. These economic factors were high taxes and industralization.

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  24. economic factors that led to expansion and nationalism were that people were taxed heavily and there was an industrial revolution

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  25. Japan's expansion andextreme nationalism were effect of the industrial revolution and of high taxes. Both of those cause pushed Japan to do better things for Japan

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  26. Some economic factors that led to growth in the country include the high tariffs and industrialization. Government had people go to the West to make their economies more modern. This also changed the culture, but in order for this, they needed money to change the government.

    -Noah S

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