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Japan Modernizes

Japan Modernizes. HWH UNIT 8 CHAPTER 13.1. Japan Before Western Imperialism. Shogunate Feudal society Emperor at the top (largely symbolic) Shoguns (military dictators) ruled Daimyo : landholding warrior class Samurai : Fought for the Daimyo. Europe. Japan. King Lord Vassals

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Japan Modernizes

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  1. Japan Modernizes HWH UNIT 8 CHAPTER 13.1

  2. Japan Before Western Imperialism • Shogunate • Feudal society • Emperor at the top (largely symbolic) • Shoguns (military dictators) ruled • Daimyo: landholding warrior class • Samurai: Fought for the Daimyo

  3. Europe Japan • King • Lord • Vassals • Knights • Peasants • Emperor • Shogun • Daimyo • Samurai • Peasants Feudalism in Europe and Japan

  4. The Tokugawa Shogunate (1603-1868) • Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616) • The First Tokugawa shogun • Capital in Edo (now Tokyo) • Rigid feudal hierarchy • Conservative: emphasized farming and traditional culture over trade and modernization • Attitude toward the West: Sakoku • “Closed Country” • All Westerners expelled (except a few Dutch traders) • Jesuit missionaries caused Xenophobia

  5. The Arrival of the West and the Collapse of the Tokugawa Shogunate • Commodore Matthew Perry, 1853 • Sailed to Japan and demanded trade • Treaty of Kanagawa: Opened Japan to the US • Soon Europeans gained access • Extraterritoriality • Spheres of Influence

  6. The Arrival of the West and the Collapse of the Tokugawa Shogunate • 1867: The Shogunate is overthrown • “Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians” • Anti-Tokugawa slogan • 1868: The emperor is “restored”

  7. The Meiji Restoration • Emperor Meiji • “Rich Nation, Strong Military” • “Japanese Spirit, Western Technology” • Abolished the old feudal system • Industrialized and modernized • Iwakura Mission: government officials travel to the West

  8. “The Chinese have become servants to the foreigners. Sovereignty may belong to China but in fact it's no more than a colony of Great Britain and France.” -Japanese Official after visiting China, 1862

  9. Meiji Reforms • Modern Military • Modern Navy • Westernized education • Written Constitution (1889) • Intensified emperor worship • Abolition of feudal system • Modern banking

  10. Industrialization in Meiji Japan • Government-sponsored capitalism • Zaibatsu: rich industrial families • Government helped establish business, family kept the profit

  11. Japan Becomes Imperialist • 1876: Japan forces Korea to trade • 1894: Sino-Japanese War • China and Japan go to war over Korea • Treaty of Shimonoseki • Japan gains land and influence in China • 1905: Russo-Japanese War • 1910: Japan annexes Korea

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