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JAPAN MODERNIZES

DISCONTENT IN TOKUGAWA JAPAN

  • IN 1603 THE TOKUGAWA FAMILY SEIZED POWER AS THE RULING SHOGUNATE
  • BROUGHT BACK FEUDALISM, ISOPLATED JAPAN FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD, ONLY TRADE WAS WITH THE DUTCH IN NAGASAKI
  • JAPAN BEGAN TO DEVELOP I SOLATION: COMMERECE EXPANDED, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION GREW
  • DAIMYO SUFFERED FROM FINANCIAL HARDSHIPS
  • DAIMYO'S WEALTH WAS IN LAND NOT CASH
  • EVERYONE WAS UPSET WITH THIER GIEN PLACES IN SOCIETY
  • SAMURAI DIDNT LIVE AS WELL AS MECHANTS
  • MERCHANTS DIDN'T LIKE BEING AT THE BOTOTM OF THE SOCIAL LADDER
  • GOEVRNMENT BEGAN TO EMPHASIZE TRADITION OVER ALL VALUES

JAPAN OPENS UP

  • BRITISH VICTORY OVER CHINA IN OPIUM WAR BEGAN TO CONCERN JAPAN
  • JAPANSES REALIZED IT WOULD NOT BE LONG BEFORE WESTERN POWERS HEADED TO JAPAN

EXTERNAL PRESSURE AND INTERNAL REVOLT

  • JULY 1853 AN AMERICAN NAVAL FLEET LED BY COMMODORE MATTHEW PERRY ARRIVES IN TOKYO
  • PERRY HAD A LETTER WRITTEN BY PRESIDENT MILARD FILMORE DEMANDING JAPAN OPEN UP TO TRADE WITH THE WEST
  • TREATY OF KANWAGA (1854) ALLOWED AMERICAN ACCESS TO TWO PORTS, EXTRATERRITORIALITY AND LOW TARIFFS ON AMERICAN IMPORTS
  • EUROPEANS DEMANDED THE SAME RIGHTS
  • 1867 REVOLUTION REMOVED THE SHOGUN AND INSTAKLLED EMEPEROR MUTSUHITO WHO TOOK THE NAME MEIJI (ENGLIGHTENED RULER)
  • MOVED THE CAPITAL FROM KYOTO TO EDO AND REMANED IT TOKYO (EASTERN CAPITAL)

THE MEIJI RESTORATION

  • 1868-1912 WAS A MAJOR TURNING POINT IN THE HISTORY OF JAPAN
  • "A RICH COUNTRY, A STRONG MILITARY" WAS THE MOTTO OF THE MEIJI
  • IN 1871 JAPANES LEADERS WENT TO THE WEST TO STUDY GOVERNMENT, ECONOMICS, AND TECHNOLOGY

MODERN GOVERNMENT

  • WANTED TO CREATE A STRONG CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
  • JAPAN WILL ADOPT THE GOVERNMENT OF GERMANY
  • CONSTITUTION ALLOWED FOR EQUALITY FOR ALL , BUT EMEPROR WAS ABSOLUTE
  • DIET WAS CREATED WITH ONE ELECTED HOUSE AND ONE APPOINTED HOUSE OF GOVERNMENT

iNDUSTRY AND SOCIAL CHANGES

  • SET UP WESTERN BUSINESS AND BANKING SYSTEMS
  • GOVERNMENT BUILT FACTORIES AND SOLD THEM TO BUSINESS OWNERS
  • ZAIBATSU- POWERFUL BANKING AND INDUSTRIAL FAMILIES
  • NO MORE SOCIAL CLASS DISTINCTIONS
  • WOMEN STILL SECONDARY CITIZENS
  • JAPAN WAS ABLE TO INDUSRIALIZE AND MODERNIZE VERY QUICKLY

MILITARY GROWTH

  • 1876 JAPAN WAS ABLE TO FORE KOREA TO OPEN ITS PORTS TO JAPAN
  • 1894 SINO-JAPANESE WAR JAPAN DEFEATED CHINA AND WON TAIWAN
  • 1904 RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR, JAPAN ATTACKED RUSSIA IN MAMCHURIA. RUSSIAN NAVY WAS DESTROYED

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