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        | The indigenous People of Japan commonly the grave diggers of executioners. Often ostracized and discriminated. |  
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        | Japanese Politician who started the Burakumin liberation movement. |  
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        | Fairytales/Politically correct term for Burakumin. |  
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        | Extortion Artists. Go into meetings an um creative in harassing people. Require bribes. |  
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        | Institutionalized Bankers who give loans to individuals at high interest rates |  
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        | Indigenous People of Hokkaido. |  
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        | The dying villages where everyone who lives there is an old person. |  
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        | Redistribution of land to make it more efficient. |  
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        | The immigrants from Brazil and Latin America that game to work but spent all day parties. |  
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        | Family based corporations |  
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        | Imperial Rescript on Education |  
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        | To educate children for the state. you must get educated for the benefit of the state. |  
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        | Steel mill. Largest in the world in 1901. |  
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        | Took over the zaibatsu. Interconnected and Corporate owned, not families. |  
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        | The big industrial complexes that take a product from raw resources to finished product in one place. |  
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        | Convenience stores like 7-11. |  
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        | Science city north of Tokyo. Used to decentralize the city. |  
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        | Separate industry from major cities. |  
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        | castle towns in the middle of a city used to be a castle, now its just empty space. |  
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        | Port towns like Nagasaki. |  
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        | Stage or post towns for the Daimyo to pass through. |  
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        | Built on the edges of Tokyo around private rail lines. |  
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        | Large military bases during the Meiji period with cities built around them. |  
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        | Cities built around mines, fisheries, etc. by the company. |  
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        | City in northern Kyuushuu which is a consolidation of many smaller cities. Heavily industrialized. |  
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        | Pleasure districts around the intersection of rail lines. |  
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        | covered markets and malls in pretty much every city and town of Nihon. |  
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        | Environmental and human affliction problems. Right to sunshine, air pressure, freedom from vibration. |  
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        | Japanese National Railroad, became privatized 1987. |  
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        | Tunnel that links Honshuu and Hokkaido. Longest rail tunnel in the world. |  
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        | Double decker bridge between Honshuu and Shikoku |  
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        | Links Kobe to Honshuu. Suspension bridge. |  
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        | 1890-1947. Established a separate judicial branch with supreme power in the Emperor. |  
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        | The professor wants us to say that it establishes the army and navy reporting to the Emperor. |  
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        | Created in 1947 by MacArthur's staff. Took away power of the Emperor, made him a symbol rather than a real power. Originally in English. |  
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        | No War clause. Japan shall never ever ever have a military. Nor shall they declare war. |  
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        | 480 members with 4 year terms. Lower house of the Diet. most powerful. |  
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        | 242 members. 6 years terms. upper house of the diet. Mostly celebrities. |  
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        | Prior to 1993 when districts elected 3-5 members to the House of Rep. based on portion of vote. |  
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        | Liberal Democratic Party. Controlling party until 1993. Still kinda in control. |  
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        | Democratic Party of Japan. Won an election in 2009-2012. |  
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        | Japan Communist Party. Never really taken seriously. |  
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        | Social Democratic Party of Japan. |  
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