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How did the Chinese influence shaped Japan after the 4th  century AD until the 8th century AD?

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How did the Chinese influence shaped Japan after the 4th  century AD until the 8th century AD?

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There have been relations between Chinese and Japanese cultures for nearly 2,000 years, and the influences of that connection are still seen today. As the older and more sophisticated of the two civilizations, Chinese culture had an enormous impact on nearly all aspects of life in Japan. We can see the influence of Chinese culture on Japanese culture in so many ways.

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1-The introduction of the Chinese script in the 4th-century c.e. was a major turning point in Japanese cultural development

-Writing with the Chinese characters, which were adapted only with great difficulty to the Japanese language, making it possible for the Yamato to begin to build a real bureaucracy and thus more firmly establish their control over vassal clan heads and the peasantry.
-Yamato clan initiated the use of the Chinese script as to develop their bureaucracy .

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2-Japanese students and teachers were sent to China to learn.

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3-Buddhism was an important factor in the transfer of Chinese influence to Japan from the mid-6th century. Buddhism became a vehicle for Chinese influence in Japan.

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4-Japanese, influenced by Chinese rule, implemented councils and government offices according to them to bureaucratic control at the local level.
-Though both nations had an Imperial Court form of government in the past, the Japanese Emperor adopted many aspects of the Chinese bureaucracy, including their versions of various titles, ranks and official functions. The first form of their constitution was influenced by the Chinese approach to a more centralized and organized government.

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5-China increased the importance of Japanese traders turning them into their own class in Japan as those Japanese merchants made a fortune through trade with China.

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6-China in the coming centuries had a more patriarchal influence on Japan due to China being less egalitarian than Japan.

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7-At Nara and Heian or what is now known as Kyoto the Japanese emperors laid out their courts and capital cities to be modeled after ancient imperial centers of China .