Japan Modernizes

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Japan Modernizes

• New Imperialism

2
Tokugawa Shogunate

• Gained power in 1600s
• Imposed feudalism and isolated Japan
• Nagasaki was their window to the world for 215
  years
• 1800s shoguns no longer strong
• Daimyo experiencing financial hardships had to
  keep up house in Edo and home
• Samurai and peasants suffered
• from lack of money, some rebelled

3
Japan Opens Up

• Foreign pressure Commodore Matthew Perry
  demands friendship, free trade, fueling
  stations (MFN extraterritoriality)
• Meiji Restoration 1868-1912 Enlightened Rule
• Determined to strengthen Japan
• against west

4
Reforms - Political

• Feudalism out Government strong central,
  autocratic
• Diet legislature modeled after Germany
• Ended privileges of samurai
• Strengthened military with western technology

5
Reforms - Social

• schools, universities with western teachers,
  literacy increased,
• women still inferior but educated
• Ended legal distinctions between classes

6
Reforms- Economic

• Western style business
• Government set up banking, RR, improved ports and
  postal service
• Kawasaki Empire Zaibatsu
• 1890s Industrial powerhouse

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Competition for an Empire

• Nationalism, modern army, modern navy
• 1894 Japan defeats China for possession of Korea
  and takes Taiwan
• Japan battles Russia
• 1905 Japan takes Manchuria and Korea in the
  Treaty of Portsmouth