Japan is a staple of modern society but it couldn't have gotten to this point without other countries' influence. During the middle ages in eastern Asia, Japan had been shaped and molded by its surrounding neighbors through Buddhism spread by Korea and China influencing its literature, philosophy, art, architecture and science. Japan had been heavily influenced by its neighboring country's through the spread of Buddhism by Korea and China helping build the literature, philosophy, art, architecture, science, medicine and statecraft of the country.
To what extent was japan's civilization influenced through cultural diffusion? Japan was heavily influenced through cultural diffusion as an example Buddhism helped develop a large part of Japan's modern day culture. " The introduction of Buddhism to the Japanese islands from China and Korea in the sixth century caused momentous changes amounting to a fundamentally different way of life for the Japanese. Along with the foreign faith, Japan establishes and maintains for 400 years close connections with the Chinese and Korean courts and adopts a more
…show more content…
Japan was massively influenced through cultural diffusion such as China helping build the literature, philosophy, art, architecture and science of the country. " This new culture is essentially Chinese and includes literature, philosophy, art, architecture, science, medicine and statecraft. Most importantly is the introduction of the Chinese writing system, revolutionizing japan," (Japan 500-1000 A.D) Japan had many of its systems and ways of life influenced by China during 500-1000 A.D in the eastern region of Asia. With Japan having many of its systems influenced by China it was able to build of those set systems and evolve and propel it's self into an age where the common way of life itself had been changed and this was able to make jaan evolve into the modern day society that it is