Our Relations with Japan

1914 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 583-601
Author(s):  
John Holladay Latané
Keyword(s):  
Great Power ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Eastern Asia ◽  
World Today ◽  
World Power ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
Great Scholar ◽  
Western Nations ◽  
Great Writer

The rise of Japan within the span of one generation from the condition of a weak feudalized state, shut off from all contact with the western nations, to the position of a world power dominated by a desire to shape the destinies of Eastern Asia and ready to dispute with other powers the control of the Pacific, constitutes one of the most dramatic stories in the whole range of history. The rapid assimilation of western ideas and the successful appropriation of all the material elements of western civilization are without a parallel.Dr. Nitobé, whom we are glad to recognize not only as a great scholar but as a great writer of English, in his remarkable book, Bushido, the Soul of Japan, describes with great power and beauty the idealism of the Samurai, or gentlemen of Japan of a generation ago, but while the old spirit still flashes out occasionally as in the spectacular, and to us meaningless, suicide, on the occasion of the funeral of the late Emperor, of one of his most distinguished subjects, General Nogi, we cannot help believing that the Japanese have outgrown their idealism; that they cast it aside when they discarded their mediaeval weapons and abandoned their self-complacent exclusivism. The Japanese are the greatest materialists in the world today, for it is the material elements of western civilization that they have appropriated and to which they owe their success in two wars. A nation of materialists, fired with ambition and military ardor, are going just as far in their aggressiveness as sheer force will carry them. That is why Japan with her present ambitions is so generally regarded as a menace to the peace of the world.

scholarly journals Suicide of a Superpower

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-94
Author(s):  
Amr Sabet
Keyword(s):  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
Great Power ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Centrifugal Forces ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
The People ◽  
The World

Both a book of lamentation about the presumably collapsing American wayof life and a populist right-wing anti-establishment agenda of ethno-nationalistxenophobia, euphemistically referred to as “ethno-pluralism,” author PatrickBuchanan presents an alarmist message of doom and gloom about the fate ofhis country. He adopts this “master frame,” which allows him and the currenthe represents to mobilize anti-immigrant sentiments as well as politicalprotest in ways that limit vulnerabilities to accusations of racism or of beingantidemocratic (Rydgren 2004).1Buchanan starts his book by asserting that this generation of Americansis witnessing “one of the most stunning declines of a great power in the historyof the world” (p. 10). His thesis is that “America is disintegrating” and thatthe “centrifugal forces pulling [it] apart are growing inexorably. What onceunited us is dissolving. And this is true of Western civilization” (p. 7; my emphasis).The explanation he offers for this is framed within the context of theUnited States losing its Christian character, implying that non-Christians donot belong there; the breakdown of society’s moral, cultural, and social fabric,read as opposition to multiculturalism as well as to liberal values and policies;and the dying of the people who created this nation, which is now being overwhelmedby a rapidly increasing flow of immigrants and members of otherraces and ethnicities. Having rung the alarm, whether true or false, Buchananproceeds in the following eleven chapters to make his case, addressing sensitiveissues of religion, race and ethnicity, demography, multiculturalism, expansivegovernment, values of equality, and foreign relations – all of whichhe has something to say about in what appears to be some kind of an ideologicaltract ...

Theoretical Foundations of World Government

1950 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas I. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Western Civilization ◽  
Western Tradition ◽  
World Government ◽  
World Today ◽  
The World ◽  
Theoretical Foundations ◽  
Special Relevance

ItIs incumbent on the advocate of World Government to show first that it is desirable, and secondly that it is possible. Initially, he has to prove that it is in accord, rather than incompatible, with the dominant ethical traditions of humanity. Because largely by reason of industrialism the values of Western civilization are profoundly influential in the world today, he must indicate its special relevance as a culmination of the Western tradition. He must then demonstrate that the psychological and sociological needs of contemporary man can best be satisfied by such government, and that men's wants and feelings are not irrevocably opposed to it. Similarly, he must make it clear that, whatever be the superficial oppositions, established folkways and mores do not constitute an insuperable barrier to its achievement. Finally, it is incumbent on him to point out how the constitutional and governmental issues raised in its establishment may be met.

scholarly journals Essaie de Description du Système Foncier Congolais d’avant Le Contact Formel Avec La Civilisation Occidentale

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 307
Author(s):  
Marie-Bernard Dhedya Lonu ◽  
Markus Gehrin ◽  
Marie-Claire Cordonier ◽  
Michel Ilume Moke ◽  
Salomon Mampeta Wabassa
Keyword(s):  
Land Ownership ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Collective Ownership ◽  
Land System ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Individual Ownership

The present study focuses on the description of the Congolese land system prior to formal contact with Western civilization. Contrary to what has been imagined, the natives of Congo have understood the notion behind landed property. This property is rather peculiar in that it does not fulfill all the criteria imposed by modern law. A few elements have enabled us to describe it. The notion of landed property has been made known to the natives. This property is established at the moment the pacific takes possession of it or by conquest of the soil. It is essentially influenced by the beliefs that characterize traditional Africa. However, the beliefs in the existence and interaction of the world of the dead with that of the living, and the beliefs in the divinity of the soil, makes it possible to specially guide the perception of landed property. Moreover, the community character directs land ownership towards collective ownership rather than individual ownership.

The ecology of mating systems in hypergynous dowry societies

1979 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mildred Dickemann
Keyword(s):  
Mating Systems ◽  
Laws Of Nature ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Human Suffering ◽  
The World ◽  
Western Nations

When the famine in Shansi was over, and I began to consider the reasons of it, I felt I must study the causes of human suffering, not only in China but in all the world. In pondering Western civilization I felt that its advantage over Chinese civilization was due to the fact that it sought to discover the workings of God in Nature, and to apply the laws of Nature for the service of mankind. This was in obedience to God's command to Adam to have dominion over all things. In ap plying the laws of science to the needs of man, Western nations had made marvellous inventions that were little less wonderful than miracles.

Universal Values and Muslim Democracy

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Anwar Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
World Today ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Universal Values ◽  
Human Desire ◽  
Dignified Life

This study deals with Universal Values and Muslim Democracy. This essay draws upon speeches that he gave at the New York Democ- racy Forum in December 2005 and the Assembly of the World Movement for Democracy in Istanbul in April 2006. The emergence of Muslim democracies is something significant and worthy of our attention. Yet with the clear exceptions of Indonesia and Turkey, the Muslim world today is a place where autocracies and dictatorships of various shades and degrees continue their parasitic hold on the people, gnawing away at their newfound freedoms. It concludes that the human desire to be free and to lead a dignified life is universal. So is the abhorrence of despotism and oppression. These are passions that motivate not only Muslims but people from all civilizations.

St Thomas More : Utopia and the World Today

Moreana ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 25 (Number 98-9 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 5-8
Author(s):  
Laura Bonner
Keyword(s):  
Thomas More ◽  
World Today ◽  
The World

The Irresistible Rise of Asian Cinema 1

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Pratley
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Motion Pictures ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
New Wave ◽  
World Today ◽  
The World ◽  
Production Activity ◽  
Exciting Development ◽  
Asian Cinema

PRODUCTION ACTIVITY It was not so many years ago it seems when speaking of motion pictures from Asia meant Japanese films as represented by Akira Kurosawa and films from India made by Satyajit Ray. But suddenly time passes and now we are impressed and immersed in the flow of films from Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, South Korea, the Philippines, with Japan a less significant player, and India and Pakistan more prolific than ever in making entertainment for the mass audience. No one has given it a name or described it as "New Wave," it is simply Asian Cinema -- the most exciting development in filmmaking taking place in the world today. In China everything is falling apart yet it manages to hold together, nothing works yet it keeps on going, nothing is ever finished or properly maintained, and yes, here time does wait for every man. But as far...

Engineering knowledge: philosophy and ponstructive meanig

2018 ◽  
pp. 10-16
Author(s):  
V. I. Onoprienko
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Knowledge Engineering ◽  
Practical Rationality ◽  
Engineering Knowledge ◽  
World Today ◽  
The World ◽  
Technological Area

An expansion of information technologies in the world today is caused by progress of instrumental knowledge. It has been arisen a special technological area of knowledge engineering, which is related to practical rationality and experts’ knowledge for solving urgent problems of science and practice.

The dilemmas of the Israeli reality and the choice of war

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 151
Author(s):  
Bashir Hadi Abdul Razak
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Arab World ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
World Today ◽  
The World ◽  
Arab Israeli Conflict ◽  
Internal And External Factors

The Arab-Israeli conflict is among the longest and most complex conflicts in the world today, a conflict that transcends borders or a difference of influence. It is a struggle for existence in every sense. Since the establishment of Israel in 1948, one of the regional forces whose political movement is determined by the Arab world has become the result of the internal and external factors and changes that affect it. This entity is hostile to the Arabs, Which would have a negative impact on the regional strategic situation.

The Contribution and Prospect of 5G Technology to China's Economic Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiawen Fu
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Key Technology ◽  
World Power ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Information And Communication

Since the birth of 5G, it has attracted much attention from all countries in the world. The development of 5G industry is particularly important for domestic economic development. 4G changes life, 5G changes society. 5G will not only accelerate the speed of people surfing the Internet, but also bring revolutionary changes to all aspects of social life, making people's lives, work and entertainment more convenient and diverse. The economic impact of the development of the 5G industry on China cannot be underestimated. Nowadays, information and communication technology has increasingly become a new driving force for economic development. 5G technology has already become a key technology pursuit for countries to compete for the status of world power, and it has also become an indispensable part of contemporary economic and social development. We should give full play to the government's guiding role, and work with network giants to build a new platform for cooperation, promote coordinated industrial development, achieve win-win results, and promote economic and social prosperity and development.

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