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This 8 page paper provides an overview of the Western influences on the cultures of the East. This paper relates the influences that the West has had on the countries of China, Japan and India, through the process of colonialization. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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influences, the rulers of Japan, China and India demonstrated a modernist perspective on the influence of the colonizers, to the point of requiring that their leaders adopt a closer understanding
of the countries of the West. Westernization of colonial China, Japan and India was linked to the need to consider leadership in a modernizing society and the expectation of
the integration of Western ideals as a part of the developing cultures. Japan Between 1846 and 1867, Japan was ruled by Emperor Komei, who was the titular ruler during
the end of the Tokugawa shogunate. Some say this was the last period in the reign of Japanese emperors under dictatorial leadership, and the transformation of Japan in the
modern era was marked by the rule of his son, Mutsuhito. Mutsuhito was the emperor of Japan between 1867-1912, and ruled during what became known as the Meiji Restoration.
Perhaps one of the most notable changes in the history of Japan in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the transformation of the government through the introduction of the
Meiji leadership demonstrated the structure of changed perceived by the role of the Emperor Mutsuhito. The Meiji Restoration resulted in the development of the Meiji Constitution, which provided the
basis for the set up of the Imperial Diet, a governing system central to the reform underway and based in the will of the people (Giffard 275). The reform
process dictated modernization through changes in every aspect of life, including education, social, and economic processes. But central to the seeming democratic process under the Imperial Diet were provisions
made for dealing with political opposition, and more than any other single factor in the creation of a true democratic process in Japan was the notion of political dissent (Giffard
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