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Imperial Japan

Imperial Japan. The rise of Tojo and the Fascist regime . End of the Tokugawa Shogun. 1600-1853 Japan was isolated 1853 – Perry and the US Angry over shipwrecked sailors

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Imperial Japan

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  1. Imperial Japan The rise of Tojo and the Fascist regime

  2. End of the Tokugawa Shogun • 1600-1853 Japan was isolated • 1853 – Perry and the US • Angry over shipwrecked sailors • TREATY OF KANAGAWA – treaty signed on 31 March 1854, allowing US ships into the ports of Hakodate and Shimoda, where a US consul would also be accepted • First treaty Japan signed with a Western country

  3. Samurai Rebellion against Western Influence • Sat-Cho (Satsuma – Choshu) Alliance • Defeated by the US • Japan need to militarize to survive • Sat – Cho coup over Tokugawa Shogunate

  4. Meiji Restoration • Sat-Cho emperor replaced shogun • Modernize and Westernize • Politics – prefects replace daimyos • Prime Minister and Parliament govern w/ Emperor • Military – based on the Prussian model • Iwakara Mission: Took ideas from other countries: • France – Law • Prussia (soon to be Germany) – Military, steel, medicine • Britain – navy • US – mechanized agriculture

  5. Japanese Expansion • 1874 – Ryukyu Islands (China) • 1876 – Korean Ports • 1894 – First Sino-Japanese War • Moves into N. Manchuria • 1905 – Russo – Japanese War • Got Sakhalin • 1910 – Annexed Korea • US cuts immigration

  6. After WWI • Allowed to keep their German possessions in China and the islands – not given any more • Washington Conference (1922) – Japan agreed they would limit their navel war tonnage • In return, Britain promised to not build a significant navel base east of Saipan

  7. Depression of 1929 • Japan weak in natural resources…economy is collapsing • Gov’t wants to put people to work • Militarist plan to fight for what they can’t get to pull out of economic problems

  8. Military coup (time for a change…) • 1931 – Army attack Chinese Manchuria without gov’t approval • Military needs international sympathy before they take Manchuria so they blow up a train with Japanese citizens on it – blame Manchuria • PM Hamaguchi shot • Popular support forces gov’t to support army and the de facto coup

  9. Changes to Japan • 1938 – Draft instituted • Political parties unified • Education and Culture de-westernized • Re-introduction of Emperor worship • Unions outlawed • Preparing for war

  10. On the Path to War • GREATER EAST ASIA CO-PROSPERITY SPHERE – imperial concept created for Asian populations during Japan’s occupation • promoted cultural and economic unity of the East Asian race • Useful propaganda because so many European nations were moving into the area • Hideki Tojo – Minister of War (1940) and then Prime Minister of Japan during WWII (1941)

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