![Image 1.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/goldgrifin007/23tS2pqbPbio7cUyAy5pjuF1ssQsJLzXFCeYXgbFBHyEyC8G4rC24GZCXbNvNun7PNaNi.png) @valued-customer As I read @valued-customer's article Biden Stokes Racism Fires at Howard University , I remembered the history of the United States as recorded by the Japanese. > I am not anti-immigration at all. I am against illegal immigration that politicians pretend to oppose, as even Biden's spokesperson says is happening. She pretends that the problem is tiny compared to what it is. I am also against lying to us. Who do these people think they are? Our overlords? In America we are sovereigns. We hire people to work for us, like the President. [RE: Biden Stokes Racism Fires at Howard University](https://peakd.com/life/@valued-customer/re-goldgrifin007-ruuhl5) @valued-customer claimed that the president of the United States was hired by American civilians. He argued that American civilians were sovereign and that the American president was employed by American civilians. Perhaps, His claim will come as a great surprise to East Asians! The reason is that most East Asians, including myself, perceive the US president as the US king!😄 ![Image 2.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/goldgrifin007/23uQiGuaQfMVAnEoviVfwUVxLmth8RMBwRuhrskjXK3YRSRF8xYUmweVmU1fctUNKBML5.png) @roleerob When I told @roleerob a long time ago that he looked like the King of America, he was a little offended! He said that I was making fun of him because he was not a king. However, in East Asia, the title of king is the highest mark of respect! In the world I live in, the president has the same authority and position as a king. By the way, the assertion that the president of the United States is employed by American civilians will shock East Asians very much!😯 [Why are Japan afraid of America?](https://peakd.com/hive-109702/@goldgrifin007/why-are-japan-afraid-of-america) When an American fleet first reached Japan across the Pacific in 1853, the Japanese were terrified and furious. ![Front.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/goldgrifin007/AK2D4JPN3YqHHuiAHWCgjyWrma5cpBtGi1GGmjimosbbceFUvAVut49zcZVRrWk.jpg) The Japanese had known about the Europeans since around the 16th century, but they had never encountered the Christian Empire in the New World beyond the Pacific. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll9Ebnq1OXY Japan was isolated from the East Asian world as an island nation ruled by samurai for 1500 years.

도로 사진 — Mongol invasions of Japan in 1274 and 1281

> Major military efforts were taken by Kublai Khan of the Yuan dynasty in 1274 and 1281 to conquer the Japanese archipelago after the submission of the Korean kingdom of Goryeo to vassaldom. Ultimately a failure, the invasion attempts are of macro-historical importance because they set a limit on Mongol expansion and rank as nation-defining events in the history of Japan. The invasions are referred to in many works of fiction and are the earliest events for which the word kamikaze (神風 "divine wind") is widely used, originating in reference to the two typhoons faced by the Yuan fleets. > The invasions were one of the earliest cases of gunpowder warfare outside of China. One of the most notable technological innovations during the war was the use of explosive, hand-thrown bombs.[7] Since ancient times, China, the Yuan Dynasty, and Korea have all tried to conquer Japan but failed. So, Japanese people had pride and arrogance that Japan is a sacred world protected by gods. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcRxbXGXzwU The belief that Japan is a great country protected by the gods and can defeat any foreign enemy is expressed in Japan's indigenous religion, Shinto (Japanese: 神道, romanized: Shintō) .

> Shinto (Japanese: 神道, romanized: Shintō) is a religion from Japan. Classified as an East Asian religion by scholars of religion, its practitioners often regard it as Japan's indigenous religion and as a nature religion. Scholars sometimes call its practitioners Shintoists, although adherents rarely use that term themselves. There is no central authority in control of Shinto, with much diversity of belief and practice evident among practitioners. > A polytheistic and animistic religion, Shinto revolves around supernatural entities called the kami (神). The kami are believed to inhabit all things, including forces of nature and prominent landscape locations. The kami are worshipped at kamidana household shrines, family shrines, and jinja public shrines. The latter are staffed by priests, known as kannushi, who oversee offerings of food and drink to the specific kami enshrined at that location. This is done to cultivate harmony between humans and kami and to solicit the latter's blessing. Other common rituals include the kagura dances, rites of passage, and seasonal festivals. Public shrines facilitate forms of divination and supply religious objects, such as amulets, to the religion's adherents. Shinto places a major conceptual focus on ensuring purity, largely by cleaning practices such as ritual washing and bathing, especially before worship. Little emphasis is placed on specific moral codes or particular afterlife beliefs, although the dead are deemed capable of becoming kami. The religion has no single creator or specific doctrine, and instead exists in a diverse range of local and regional forms. > Although historians debate at what point it is suitable to refer to Shinto as a distinct religion, kami veneration has been traced back to Japan's Yayoi period (300 BCE to 300 CE). Buddhism entered Japan at the end of the Kofun period (300 to 538 CE) and spread rapidly. Religious syncretization made kami worship and Buddhism functionally inseparable, a process called shinbutsu-shūgō. The kami came to be viewed as part of Buddhist cosmology and were increasingly depicted anthropomorphically. The earliest written tradition regarding kami worship was recorded in the 8th-century Kojiki and Nihon Shoki. In ensuing centuries, shinbutsu-shūgō was adopted by Japan's Imperial household. During the Meiji era (1868 to 1912), Japan's nationalist leadership expelled Buddhist influence from kami worship and formed State Shinto, which some historians regard as the origin of Shinto as a distinct religion. Shrines came under growing government influence, and citizens were encouraged to worship the emperor as a kami. With the formation of the Japanese Empire in the early 20th century, Shinto was exported to other areas of East Asia. Following Japan's defeat in World War II, Shinto was formally separated from the state. > Shinto is primarily found in Japan, where there are around 100,000 public shrines, although practitioners are also found abroad. Numerically, it is Japan's largest religion, the second being Buddhism. Most of the country's population takes part in both Shinto and Buddhist activities, especially festivals, reflecting a common view in Japanese culture that the beliefs and practices of different religions need not be exclusive. Aspects of Shinto have been incorporated into various Japanese new religious movements. Shinto (Japanese: 神道, romanized: Shintō) is a polytheistic religion similar to Hinduism in India, giving overlords the status of gods. The ancient East Asian world was dominated by a religion similar to Japan's Shinto. So, the ovrelords of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam actively accepted Buddhism, which was a branch of Hinduism. They could use the authority of Buddhism to become gods themselves and possess absolute power. So, Overlords beloved by @valued-customer have been able to hold great power in the East Asian world to this day.😆 They accepted the caste system created by Hinduism in India and created a Japanese-style caste system.

> The Essentials Both the Indian caste system and the Japanese feudal class system have four main categories of people, with others falling below the system entirely. > In the Indian system, the four primary castes are: > Brahmins: Hindu priests Kshatriyas: the kings and warriors Vaisyas: farmers, traders, and skilled artisans Shudras tenant farmers and servants. Below the caste system there were the "untouchables," who were considered so impure that they could contaminate people from the four castes just by touching them or even being too close to them. They did unclean jobs such as scavenging animal carcasses, tanning leather, etc. The untouchables are also known as dalits or harijans. > Under the feudal Japanese system, the four classes are: > Samurai, the warriors Farmers Artisans Merchants. As with India's untouchables, some Japanese people fell below the four-tier system. These were the burakumin and hinin. The burakumin served essentially the same purpose as untouchables in India; they did butchering, leather tanning, and other unclean jobs, but also prepared human burials. The hinin were actors, wandering musicians, and convicted criminals. > Origins of the Two Systems India's caste system arose out of the Hindu belief in reincarnation. A soul's behavior in its previous life determined the status it would have in its next life. Castes were hereditary and fairly inflexible; the only way to escape a low caste was to be very virtuous in this life, and hope to be reborn in a higher station the next time. > Japan's four-tier social system came out of Confucian philosophy, rather than religion. According to Confucian principles, everyone in a well-ordered society knew their place and paid respect to those stationed above them. Men were higher than women; elders were higher than young people. Farmers ranked just after the ruling samurai class because they produced the food that everyone else depended upon. > Thus, though the two systems seem quite similar, the beliefs from which they arose were rather different. Burakumin They created a Japanese caste system similar to that created by Hinduism in India.

> There were four social classes in ancient China including noble, farmers or peasants, artisans or craftsmen, and merchants. The four social classes were based on the teachings of Confucius. The four social classes were to allow people to live in harmony and balance. Read through the resources below to learn more. > Ancient Chinese society (Time Maps, n.d.) According to the traditional Confucian view, society is made up of four classes: government officials, farmers, artisans and merchants. Read through this website to learn more about why society was structured like this and what the role of each class was. Scholar-officials of China (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004, October) Beginning about the fourth century B.C., ancient texts describe Chinese society as divided into four classes: the scholar elite, the landowners and farmers, the craftsmen and artisans, and the merchants and tradesmen. Under imperial rule, the scholar elite, whose exemplar was Confucius, directed the moral education of the people; the farmers produced food; the craftsmen made things that were useful; and the merchants promoted luxury goods. Because in theory the Confucian elite advocated simple rural values as opposed to a taste for luxury (which they viewed as superfluous, leading to moral degeneration), the merchants who sold for profit, adding nothing of value to society, ranked low on the social scale (though, in reality, economic success had its obvious advantages). Read through this article to learn more about the scholar elite. Artisans and merchants (Weebly, n.d.) In ancient China, artisans and merchants were considered to be a very minor part of China’s economy and were low down in the social hierarchy. This was because the artisans were thought to not be doing work useful to expanding the empire, and the merchants were not producing anything of their own. Read through this website to learn more. Ancient China social classes quiz (Quizziz, 2020) Test your knowledge of Ancient Chinese social classes with this short quiz! [Social structure of China](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_structure_of_China) Strictly speaking, Japan's caste system was based on the Confucian caste system of China, but Japan's overlords created Shinto by mixing traditional Japanese religion with Buddhism, making themselves divine. Japanese overlords outwardly copied the Chinese caste system, but created Shinto as the religious foundation of the Japanese caste system.

> The Tokugawa shogunate (/ˌtɒkuːˈɡɑːwə/ TOK-oo-GAH-wə;[15] Japanese: 徳川幕府, romanized: Tokugawa bakufu, IPA: [tokɯŋawa baꜜkɯ̥ɸɯ]), also known as the Edo shogunate (江戸幕府, Edo bakufu), was the military government of Japan during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868.[16][17][18] > The Tokugawa shogunate was established by Tokugawa Ieyasu after victory at the Battle of Sekigahara, ending the civil wars of the Sengoku period following the collapse of the Ashikaga shogunate. Ieyasu became the shōgun, and the Tokugawa clan governed Japan from Edo Castle in the eastern city of Edo (Tokyo) along with the daimyō lords of the samurai class.[19][20][17] The Tokugawa shogunate organized Japanese society under the strict Tokugawa class system and banned most foreigners under the isolationist policies of Sakoku to promote political stability. The Tokugawa shoguns governed Japan in a feudal system, with each daimyō administering a han (feudal domain), although the country was still nominally organized as imperial provinces. Under the Tokugawa shogunate, Japan experienced rapid economic growth and urbanization, which led to the rise of the merchant class and Ukiyo culture. > The Tokugawa shogunate declined during the Bakumatsu ("final act of the shogunate") period from 1853 and was overthrown by supporters of the Imperial Court in the Meiji Restoration in 1868. The Empire of Japan was established under the Meiji government, and Tokugawa loyalists continued to fight in the Boshin War until the defeat of the Republic of Ezo at the Battle of Hakodate in June 1869. The Tokugawa shogunate (/ˌtɒkuːˈɡɑːwə/ TOK-oo-GAH-wə;[15] Japanese: 徳川幕府, romanized: Tokugawa bakufu, IPA: [tokɯŋawa baꜜkɯ̥ɸɯ]) perfected the Japanese caste system and ruled Japan for 300 years. Japan's overlords could use the authority of the Shinto religion to become gods themselves. However, with the arrival of Christian thought from the New World, Japan's overlords felt a sense of crisis. Seeing American civilians like my respected senior @valued-customer refuse to acknowledge the divine authority of the overlords, they believed that Christianity would destroy Japan's caste system. **The Christian civilization of the New World will destroy Japan's sacred and great caste system!** [2. The International Geopolitics of Overlords in East Asia](https://peakd.com/hive-109702/@goldgrifin007/2-the-international-geopolitics-of-overlords-in-east-asia) Japanese overlords were convinced of a future war against the Christian empires of the New World! They found similarities between themselves and the overlords of Europe! So, They believed that by forging alliances with European overlords and enlisting their help, they would be able to win future wars with the Christian empire of the New World! ![99558C4C5BC816EE3A.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/goldgrifin007/48KbQao3Y9VeaRsYAnuDPSRe67oALCEEEwFqN7NThaRmnyVysFuUzKrqTpw9xoUoBo.png) ![mao_bulganin_stalin_ulbricht_tsedenbal.jpeg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/goldgrifin007/23tvW8yeFTgdBPhQZsYKxyPpXwjTydrQ3FghjPdrCeUBt68WJ8VpzkFQakMHjs8DXZbnP.jpeg) ![877a6bc4-3ef2-475b-ab50-510b0185bc5f.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/goldgrifin007/245TEFJzQ1ax2FwfHRCuEfY4A6cmR1YTicc5eCiG6xV568FQFBcCqYFxpJvQ3qbD2ug7q.jpg) ![XQ47ZDEFSJJ6746UJKJNJ2KC6E.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/goldgrifin007/244KRFcf4dJYZNrDmbspWbi7HLXBV5bGL7B1KSTjTZkXqUxZfPE6h1eX9sTmy2oCeBCyv.jpg) ![C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iQHT5VSJ7toAD2b8Z6nZ3uJfRpwYu3XyGiRFYBqwAsh7CpzHU6kghH3d6PbQ9y9FJJC57h9y69c.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/goldgrifin007/23wWtxhzHsLDnfMYZR8grUycQ6x5yhUt72iK9idrzV9paBpGpfpcPx1rSH4oegZD2B4iF.png) ![Xi_Jinping_2019.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/goldgrifin007/242hesiAEwiykwtYTc2cYyBsK1hg48EXX4WbfxoHnHJVYUjE8FkXN129gb2cyWAf4RC2m.jpg) PS: Please forgive my rude behavior of using Your Majesty's photos without permission! 🙏