and a social hierarchy that failed to recognize men of talent” (Gordon 2014, 62). Out of this critique came a new system emphasizing military and economic strength through unity and centralization.

A new study suggests that modern Japanese have descended from three ancestral populations, including people in the Kofun Period between the third and seventh century. According to current ...

Also students will benefit from gaining some prior understanding of the East Asian tributary system, unification in Japan, and Tokugawa changes to political and social order such as local to ...