The first turning point for Japan is seen in the Tokugawa Shogunate Period. I see it as the calm before the storm. It was a period of time of relative peace and stability, characterized by its strong centralized rule. This was a feudalistic era living in an isolated world. The Tokugawa Ieyasu establishes 14 generations of Tokugawa Shoguns. One of the largest landmark alterations is found in the moving of the capital to Edo, otherwise known as Tokyo. This period is not as popular as the other listed turning points, but it too is very important because it illustrates Japan's paradigm of society and what

Finally, MacArthur's drafting of the new Japanese Constitution in 1946 is very significant because it transformed Japan's political life, making it a truly parliamentary state. It was a Western import into the rich Eastern cultural setting of Japan. The 1947 Japanese Constitution simply imported the practices and institution of the successful British regime. The preamble to the Constitution states: "We the Japanese people...do proclaim that sovereign power resides with the people." In fact, the people were not involved in the process and the role of their elected representatives was only minimal. The Japanese found themselves with a constitution written for them by the foreign powers who had defeated them militarily. This Constitution also shifted power from the emperor to the Diet. Through today, the emperor is just seen as the "symbol" of the Japanese state, with the Diet, or parliament, as the highest organ of state power and the sole law-making organ of the State. It is especially surprising that a constitution imposed on the Japanese people by a foreign conqueror has lasted so long and become so popular in a country proud of its own legacy, but one of the main factors for the success is because it won broad support as it provided for the rapid economic recovery of a country devastated by the war.

The Japanese defeat in WWII

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