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Tokugawa
Period
* Feudalism
returns
* Closed Japan
* Forbade
overseas
travel
* Nagasaki- only

http://www.japanirelandtravel.ie/download/1/Tokugawa-Period.jpg

Development Strains
Society

* Daimyo wealth in land, need

$ in commercial society,
samurai too
* Merchants- bottom of society
* Peasants- heavy taxes

External Pressure

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I remember the
Chinese losing
to the British.
I dont want
that to happen!

Commodore Matthew
Perry

July 1853 sails into

Tokyo on Pres.
Fillmores order
Demands Japan
open diplomatic &
commercial
exchange

http://mysite.du.edu/~ttyler/ploughboy/perryphoto.jpg

What to do?

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Treaty of Kanagawa,
1854
Open two ports to
Americans
U.S. later wins other rights
Extraterritoriality
Low taxes on U.S. imports
Euro soon follow too
Japanese humiliated

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Review: Copy the question and

discuss the answer with a
neighbor.

Q: What
problems
weakened
shogun rule in
Japan mid-1800s?
Q: What caused
Japan to end over
200 years of
seclusion?

Review: Copy the question and

discuss the answer with a
neighbor.

Q: What
A: Financial
problems
hardship, social
weakened
resentment,
shogun rule in
taxes,
Japan mid-1800s?
corruption
Q: What caused
Japan to end over A: A display of
power by the
200 years of
seclusion?
U.S.

Daimyo & samurai

lead revolt

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Emperor MutshitoMeiji

1868- 1912
Meiji Restoration
A rich country, a
strong military
Study Western
ways, adopt to
Japan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Meiji

Modern
Govt
1889- Meiji Const.
Emperor- abs pwr
Diet- Legislature
Elected house
House appointed by
emperor
Lmtd voting
End samurai- all men
subject to military

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Industrialization
Modernize
Gov build factory & sell to wealthy
to develop
Zaibatsu- banking/industry
families
Pop grows, cities too
Homogenous society emerges

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Japanmodernized
Japan wins
Gets control of
Taiwan from
China

Korea in the Middle

Tributary state
(independent, but
acknowledges
supremacy of
stronger stateChina)
Japan eyes Korea
Forces K to open
ports to Japan

http://www.worldtimelines.org.uk/resources/assets//M/ms_korea_4776.gif

Russo- Japanese War

http://www.shs.d211.org/socialstudies/faculty/hxm/Russo_japanese_cartoons%5B1%5D.jpg

Russo-Japanese War,
1904
Japan defeats
Russians in
Manchuria
Asian beats
Euro!

http://www.warchat.org/pictures/russo-japanese_war.jpg

This political cartoon, intended for foreign distribution, was published by Japan a month
after the start of the war. Entitled "A Humorous Diplomatic Atlas of Europe and Asia," it
depicts Russia as a "black octopus."

http://www.bigredhair.com/boilerplate/soldier/bp.octopus.tn.jpg

Treaty of Portsmouth
Japan controls
Korea &
Manchuria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Portsmouth

Japan Rules Korea

Protectorate annex
Developed
Harsh rule
Protest/nationalist mvmt
March First Movement (est. 1919)

Early 1900s- Japan dominates Asia

Review: Copy the question and

discuss the answer with a
neighbor.

Q: List three ways

in which Japan
modernized.
Explain how each
of these actions
helped
strengthen Japan
so it could resist
Western pressure.

Review: Copy the question and

discuss the answer with a
neighbor.
Q: List three ways A1: Japan est
in which Japan
a
Westernmodernized.
style govt
Explain how each
of these actions
This
helped
strengthene
strengthen Japan
so it could resist
d the
Western pressure.
military

Review: Copy the question and

discuss the answer with a
neighbor.
Q: List three ways A2: Japan
in which Japan
built
modern
modernized.
factories
Explain how each
of these actions
This
helped
boosted the
strengthen Japan
so it could resist
economy
Western pressure.

Review: Copy the question and

discuss the answer with a
neighbor.

Q: List three ways A3: Japan ended

in which Japan
legal distinctions
modernized.
among classes
Explain how each
This allowed
of these actions
more
people
to
helped
work
toward
strengthen Japan
nation-building
so it could resist
Western pressure.