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How did Japan's New Worldview Change Its Social Systems

Presented by: Landon Porteous

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In Japan the social systems started to affect Lives of Daimyo, Lives of Samurai, Lives of Commoners, and the Lives of Farmers

In Japan the social systems started to affect Lives of Daimyo, Lives ...

How it affected lives of Daimyo

How the lives of Daimyo Changed

The court nobility and the daimyo were merged into a single arisocratic class. The daimyo were no longer allowed to get money from their domains. The governemnt gave them a one time slump of money and gave them generous pensions as well took over any debt that the daimyo had accumulated on the domains. They got to move to Tokyo where they got to set up in national banks to assist them in investing their capital in new businesses.

How the Lives of Samurai Changed

How the Lives of nSamurai Changed

Samurai were still given allowances but they got reduced significantly and then they were eliminated.

Military conscription symbolically ended the importance and priviledge of samurai's. They were forbidden to to wear their ceremonial swords and eventually their special dresses and hair style became out of fashion.

The samurai had been given permission to become tradespeople, farmers, business owners. Many of the samurai that had been educated and trained for public duty and were involved in other areas, including business, government, and education.

Before and After Change in Social Systems

After

Before

Before and After Change in Social Systems

When Japan's leaders implemented change in the political system they decided to change the social system. Japan eliminated the feudal system so that the rigid class structures that controlled Japans citizens for centuries was dismantled. The individuals were finally free to get better status and change occupations as well they could move around the country freely.

In the early years of Japan you could not move around in classes and you had to be what your class said you were and there was no changing the class or moving around freely.

How the Lives of Commoners Changed

The feudal was abolished so people with lower incomes had the oppurtunity to move to positions and to positions of higher pay.

They were allowed to have surnames.

The ban on intermariage with samurai and commoners was lifted, blurring the old class lines.

The lowest classes were raised to the status of a commoner. This was a positive move although people were now subject to the same tax and the legal obligations to the state as everyone else. Previously they had been ignored by all of the segments of society.

Christians were allowed to practice their faith

How the Lives of Farmers Changed

How the lives of Farmers Changed

The farmers had been given ownership and their lands and they were free to grow what ever plant they wanted. They could now move about and sell their products at market. Although the y had to pay 3% tax on their land. When the peasants couldn't pay their taxes, possibly because of poor crops they had to sell their land to wealthier farmers and had to become tenant farmers. Most tenant farmers ended up living in poverty and the wealthier landowners gained prosperity.

Previously farmers had negotiated with the daimyo during the famines and droughts but then they were forced to work with a bureaucy that was impersonal and inflexable.

The 3% land tax was a more equitable tax but for some farmers, taxes rose and caused hardship. Many grew angry as they noticed that the merchant class was becoming more wealthy. A series of violent protests by the farmers were put down by the the newly formed national army.

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