A Study On The External Challenges And Responses Of Japan's Development Since Modern Times

Modern Japan had undergone rapid development, rising from a quasi-Western colony to an economic superpower in the span of less than 140 years. In this process, the military force and pressure from the outer world played a very important role. Because Japan is a country which has a strong crisis consciousness, single exclusivity as well as ability to incorporate things of diverse nature.In order to understand the laws of Japan's response to the external challenges with great accuracy, it might be a very effective way to study the history of Japan's response to the external challenges. The dissertation studies Japan's home position, external challenges, Japan's response to the external challenges, the influence of external challenges to Japan's development and comparatively analyzes Japan's external challenges and responses during Meiji Restoration Era and Showa Reformation Era. By doing these, it can be known that Japan follows specific laws when she responses external challenges, such as upper-middle-class are the hard core to respond the external challenges, Japan's response to the external challenges is in accordance with the pattern and result of challenge and response mode put forward by Arnold Joseph Toynbee, strengthening one's own power is the best choice to respond the external challenges.At the present time, Japan's external challenges show new characteristics and Japan also faces some difficulties during her responses. By using the laws of Japan's response to the external challenges in history, it can be predicated that Japan's ruling class will be the main part to respond the external challenges and it will be the reasonable choice for Japan to adopt a "creative response" policy. Furthermore, Transforming from the offensive policy to the cooperative policy will be the main behavior trend. In order to deal with the relations with Japan, China, one of Japan's challenge subjects, should formulate a detailed strategy toward Japan, deepen and strengthen the communication, mutual trust, interaction with each other. At the same time, China should also expand the areas of interaction and promote the levels of development.