The Comparison Of The Two Risings In Japan's Modernization And The Theoretical Thoughts

Japan is one of the Asian nations that realized the modernity in earlier times, because it lasted longer and more unsteadily, many scholars pay much attention to its character. Studying the modernization of Japan from the comparative angle, there are also a lot of achievements, most of them concentrated on comparing Japan with the modernization of the United States, China, Russia, Turkey etc. This thesis uses the modernity theories to be the tool, combines with Japanese modernization historical fact, focuses on the Meiji restoration and the post-war rising, divides the more than 150 struggle years in the process of Japanese modernization into two. big main stages, distinguishes them from each other in the way of background, path, influence etc, and gets some regular knowledge.Japan is an important neighboring country of China, its social traditional deep composing principle and the cultural connotation are very similar to China. Japan applied the special method to deal with the problems and difficulties in modernization, the successful experience and the failures, are surely a huge wealth to China. Especially after the World War II, under the peaceful international environment, Japan made full use of the science and technology revolution, the beneficial condition of United States and so on, became the second economic giant in the world and rose again. In the new the century, China also faces many complicated situations, such as the wave of the globalization, the influence of new science and technology revolution etc. This text studies what Japan had got in the modernization, reaches the conclusion that peaceful rising is the best choice for our current China to modernity, the great renew of the Chinese also necessarily will be strong motive of the world peace and development.