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Power hungry Japan

  • Japan gets more confident as it takes over region by region.
  • Japan invades Korean Peninsula in 1910.
  • Japan gains old German colonies after WWI in 1920. Japan also invades Manchuria in 1931.

After Harris Treaty gets signed..

  • The Harris Treaty allowed the US to trade in Kanagawa, Nagasaki, Nigata, and Hyogo.
  • Later, Europeans got their own treaties with Japan too.
  • The people of Japan don't feel the same about the shogun for allowing Americans to come and trade in their country.

Nagasaki

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US IMPERIALISM ON JAPAN

Meiji Revolution

  • Citizens of Japan call for the restoration of an Emperor instead of a Shogun.
  • Shogun falls from power as a result of the Meiji Revolution.
  • Power was restored to new emperor- Prince Mutsuhito (Meiji) on January 3, 1868.

Meiji

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Perry Persists

  • Perry did not want to take no for an answer. He persisted and made threats. He even threatened to take Okinawa Island and use it as a base.
  • Japan was already worrying because of Russia. Russia was getting stronger and was also paying them visits. Another factor was that the Shogun, Japan's current leader, died shortly after Perry's first visit and Japan was not prepared for his threats at this point in time.
  • On March 31, 1854, Japan gave in to Perry's pressure. They agreed and signed what is now called the Treaty of Kanagawa at Yokohama.

Perry Pops In

  • On July 8, 1853, American Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry arrived at Tokyo Bay with 2 steamboats and 2 sailboats.
  • Perry brought a letter with him from President Fillmore, asking Japan politely to trade with the US and gave them a year to reply.
  • He then returned in February of 1854 to Japan and they declined his offer.

Commodores before Perry

  • Perry wasn't the first commodore to be sent by the US, though he was the first to succeed.
  • Commodore Biddle was sent by the US first, around 1846. The Japanese denied his request to negotiate.
  • Commodore Glynn went to Nagasaki in order to have 12 American seamen be rendered to him, in which they were. The US were ready to take on Japan in 1853, when they sent Perry.

Japan prior to US Imperialism

  • Japan had been isolated from most countries between 1639-1858.
  • Under Hideyoshi, Japan tried to invade Korea in the late 16th century and failed. This failure was one of the early causes of what would be soon the beginning of Japan's isolationist state.
  • Within that period, Japan only traded minimally with the Philippines and Macao. The Dutch were only allowed to trade with them at Nagasaki.

More takeovers for Japan

  • Russo-Japanese War (1904-05): Both

Russia and Japan wanted control of

Korea and Manchuria.This caused huge

conflict between the two.

  • War was announced on February 8, 1904,

with Japan sending off an unexpected attack on Russia at Port Arthur.

  • The war ended successfully for Japan once again with the Treaty of Portsmouth created. Japan attains control of Port Arthur, the Liaotung Peninsula, the South Manchurian railroad, and half of Sakhalin island.

A Tale of Two Treaties

  • The Treaty of Kanagawa opened 2 trading ports to American ships for refueling. This treaty did NOT give the US permission to trade with Japan.
  • It didn't take long though for US Consul Townsend Harris to show up and try to convince Japan to sign a treaty that allowed trade. Japan saw how Britain had forced China to open up their ports, and decided it was better to agree now than to regret it later.
  • Thus, the Harris Treaty was signed on July 29, 1858.

Meiji Era

  • Enlightened Rule: 1868- 1912
  • Was a time of chaos in Japan filled with new renovations-Communal and governmental.
  • Iwakura Mission: (1871-1873) Goal was to research the west and restore the Treaty of Kanagawa. Instead, all that happened was that Japan became majorly modernized.

Results of Meiji Era

  • Extreme westernization of Japan.
  • The US and powerful European countries

were studied carefully (Iwakura Mission) in order to westernize Japan. Goal was to make Japan an influential country.

  • Primary changes were in Transportation,

Clothing, Military, Schooling, Class systems,

Architecture, and most importantly CULTURE!

Japan turns the tables

  • Japan does to Korea exactly what the US did to them -

Forces them to open up their trading ports.

  • Sino-Japanese War (1894-95):

On August 01, 1894, war was announced. Dispute between China and Japan over who gets to take over Korea. Japan invades provinces of- Shandong and Manchuria and is victorious in war.

  • War ends with Treaty of Shimonoseki.

This war makes Japan look admirable

and China look inferior.

One of the most influential countries

  • Japan had almost all of the Chinese coast controlled.
  • Japan had controlled Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia by 1940 and seized all of the Dutch, British, and American colonies by 1941. Japan kept going until defeated in WWII.
  • "By the time of the Japanese surrender in August 1945, Korea was the second-most industrialized nation in Asia after Japan itself." -Asia for Educators, Columbia University
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