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What are two ways that Feudal Europe and Feudal Japan are similar? What are two ways that Feudal Europe and Feudal Japan are different?

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Since the ownership of land is what defines feudalism, both Japan and Europe have both landowning and non-landowning castes during the Middle Ages.

Perhaps the most important similarity between Japanese and European feudalism for most people was the fact that they were both hereditary caste systems.
In both areas, those who were born peasants had not chance of becoming anything other than peasants.

Furthermore, they had no hope that their children would be anything other than peasants. Similarly, those who were born into the families of local lords or samurai would belong to the same caste as their parents, no matter how unqualified for leadership they might be. Over time, these caste systems began breaking down, but they severely limited the opportunities of the masses for hundreds of years.
differences are Unlike European feudalism Japan’s feudalism system did not have a true pyramid form with the monarch presiding over the less important nobles.

There are actually two main reasons for this.

First, the authority in Japan was much less centralized than it was in the nation-states of Europe. Even though most of the local aristocrats paid lip service to the emperor, the rugged terrain of Japan made it very difficult for the emperor to fully control the local aristocracy. Therefore the local aristocrats had much more power in Japan than they ever had in France, Britain, or any other European country.

Secondly, even though the lower nobility in Japan (the samurai) swore fealty to their local lords, the local lords didn’t give the samurai any land of their own. When the European nobility receives land in exchange for their military services, the samurai did not join a landowning hierarchy. Instead of that they were given an independent income from their local lord based upon what that lord’s lands produced.