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Japan is one of the world's leading industrial and trading nation and the first Asian nation to develop economy. Japan is the East Asian mainland to receive the stimulation of foreign ideas. There were chronicles of Japan in ancient time. One of the ruler, Shotoku, introduced to Japan various cultural element borrowed from the Chinese. He ruled briefly. Knowledge of Shotoku's constitution came from the Nibongi and it was one of Japan's two oldest collections of legend and history. The Nibongi traced the history of Japan back to logical age of the gods. Before he had known, there were several rulers such as Jimmu Ennu, Yamato, and Soga. Jimmu Tennu was the mythic first emperor of Japan that began to rule in 660 BCE. Yamato became the Sun Line his authority grew in the centuries of state building. However, Yamato could not control several of Japan's powerful clan. A member of the powerful uji by Soga clan, who was a Buddhist. He worked to spread his religion and building many Buddhist temples. He chose one emperor, Suiko, after engineering. UJI designated an imperial prince to serve. And then, Shotoku was appointed regent. His codes affected in Japanese society in spiritual thinking.

I see Japanese society against Chinese. Actually, Japanese cultures are similar with Korea. Japanese spoken language is related to Korean because they attracted there and ruled them for 35 years. The ancestors of the Japanese originated in Northeast of China. They displaced the islands' inhabitants with Ainu who was physically different from the Japanese. It was was identifiable culture. Japanese got many from Korea which was the earlier historical development country. Japan's first identifiable state did not arise first, but it becomes big industrial country today. Japanese got religion from China which is Buddhism. They could observe the governmental systemof the Tang Dynasty. However, The religion of Shinto became Japan's origianl animistic religion. It forced within Japanese culture. Also Japanese leaders belonged to religion. Japanese's society and government were still controlled by feudal clan lords and aristocrats.

ution inferred about his ideals and goals. Shotoku prepared seventeen clauses for the time. First, he wrote about human's behavior. In that time, mostly, men were admitted as human. Men were influenced by class-feeling. He said that men shall obey and respect their Lords and fathers. If men did not, there would