Japan

Tokugawa Part II

In what ways did Japan change during the Tokugawa era?

1. Entrepreneurial peasants, using fertilizer and other agricultural

innovations grew more rice than ever before and engaged in a variety of

rural manufacturing enterprises.

3. Edo, Japan became the world’s largest city, with 1 million residents.

Tokugawa

Japans government largely differed than that of China and the Ottoman Empire

• To further stabilize the country the Tokuwaga regime issued highly detailed rules governing occupation, residence, dress, hairstyles, and behavior of the four hierarchy ranked status groups into which Japanese was divided into. Samurai first, peasants, artisans, and lastly merchants.

Modernization in Japanese Style

In what ways was Japan revolutionary in the 19th century?

3.Some opposition, but overall peaceful

1.1877 Samurai rebellion

Japan's Relationship

How did Japans relationship to the larger world change during its mondernization process?

• Japan became more powerful as they modernized, and they defeated of the Russians an Chinese. This defeat, along with the control of Taiwan and Korea, brought admiration from people around the world. Japan became a economic, political, and military competitor with the rest of the world. Poles, Finns, and Jews became greatful to Japan for the defeat of Russia and Chinese reformers and nationalist traveled to Japan to study their acheivement

Meiji Restoration

Explain the Meiji Restoration

• A political takeover in 1868 by a group of young samurai from southern Japan
• The country restored poer to a 15-year old named Meiji (major turning point in Japans history)
• Having eliminated the shogunate, the patriotic young men who led the takeover decided to save Japan from foreign domination, not by futile resistance, but by a thorough transformation of Japanese society, drawing upon all that the modernwest had to offer

• Japan now had a government committed to a break with the past, and it had aquired that government without massive violence or destruction

4.Accompaning these social and political change was a widespred and eager facination with almost everything in western society

a.However, early experience with China about selecting what to take was also applied here. The Japanese selected what to take and keep from the Western society.

1)Constitution of 1889, but drawing from German Experience introduced an elected parliamentery, political parties, and democratic ideals, gift from sacred emperor decended from the Sun Goddess

1.They attempted to create national unity

• a.They attacked the power and privelege of daimyo and samurai
• b.There was a major break with the past and end to semi-independant domains of daimyo. Replacing them with the government appointed by the national government. Central state not local authority collected the nationst taxes. Also, they had a rising number of members conscripted in the national army from all social classes.

2.Confuncionasism which based social order from various classes was largely dismantled. Now, all Japanese were equal including commoners from the subject of the empire.

• Japan was governed by shogun from Tokugawa who acted revered but powerless government

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• They based their own military power and politics on powerful shogun

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• One important task was to prevent a civil war from Daimyo's states

• Daimyo retained substantial autonomy in their won domains and behaved like independent states

• They had no national army, no uniform currency and little central authority at the local level

7. After social changes and corruption the Shogunate had failed to put

merchants back in their place. Also severe famine brought urban riots

4. The influence of Confucianism created a more literate population, forty

percent of men and fifteen percent of women were able to read and write.

6. Peasant, although were prohibit to city life, moved to the cities to

become artisans or merchants. They imitated the ways of social better or

higher social status people by,

wearing inapproriate clothing

using umbrellas rather than straw hats

5. Some samurai saw the lowly but profitable path of commerce irresistible.

Making a profit was honorable in their eyes. On the other hand many

merchants started to seek towards commercial and urban culture.

Merchants had money but low ranking status, and samurai enjoyed high

status but were in debted often to inferior merchants.

2. Japan became the world’s most urbanized country with about ten

percent of population living in sizable towns and cities. The linking of rural

and urban areas made japan an emerging capitalist economy.

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