compare and contrast feudal japan and feudal Europe?

Answer 1

While geographically, they are/were at opposite ends of the universe, they had a great many similarities.
The Japanese modeled their social structures after the Chinese and Koreans. Their communities (larger cities) were set up in a square fashion with the capital or head family being at the top, center of the square. The farther away you were located, the less important your status. This was for both shops and homes. Peasants generally lived outside the square and were not afforded the protection of the walls. The head families generally were the landlords and as such, collected taxes of whatever was produced by the families living on their land. They also had their own armies -- everyone's hollywood favorite Samurai. As time went on and things became more centralized in government, power plays between landlords became less frequent but more deadly. In the end, one government was formed with only one head. Ambassadores were required to keep track of the citizens and collect taxes. As an Ambassadore, the more in disfavor you were with the powers that be, the farther you dispatched from the capital.

In Europe, for the most part, the same could be said for structure. Landlords built fortresses, watched over those living on their land and collected taxes from those subjects. The lower your status, the farther you were from the throne. Like Japan, peasentry generally lived outside the walls and were afforded little protection. Landlords had their armies, headed by knights.

Answer 2

There were not too many differences.
Both were ruled by monarchs, class divisions, hierarchy of leaderships.
Both had a caste of warriors who followed a certain set of rules (Europe: knights and chivalry, Japan: samurai and Bushido.)

Europe was the first to employ gunpowder for purely military applications and sailing for long distance exploration.
Japan retained it's feudal system until after World War 2 (when the emperor was officially no longer the true head of the government.)

Answer 3

God, who cares?

I mean, really?

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