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Meiji Restoration of Japan
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❖ 1543: Portuguese were the first Europeans to arrive in Japan
❖ brought missionaries
❖ converted and baptized around 300,000
❖ St. Francis Xavier was a famous Jesuit missionary to Japan
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❖ 1600: Tokugawa Shogunate came to power
❖ moved the capital from Heian to Edo (Tokyo)
❖ 1600-1868: the Edo Period in Japanese History
❖ Tokugawa closed Japan to Europeans
❖ with the exception of the Dutch who were allowed to trade on the island of Dijema which was off the coast of Nagasaki
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❖ Christianity was banned in Japan
❖ Japanese Christians were martyred.
❖ In one case, 36,000 Christians defended themselves inside a fortress but only 105 survived.
❖ Others were crucified or thrown into volcanoes.
❖ During the Edo Period, the shogun ruled and the emperor had little power.
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❖ For 200 years, Japan had very little contact with the industrialized countries of the world.
❖ 1853: Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in Edo Harbor with 4 American steam-powered warships.
❖ He requested a trade treaty between the USA & Japan.
❖ Japanese considered Europeans & Americans as barbarians.
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❖ 1854: Fearing what had happened in China (division of the country by European powers), Japan signed a trade treaty with the USA.
❖ By 1860: Japan gave trading rights to Britain, France, Russia, and the Netherlands.
❖ Japanese believed these treaties were unequal and favored the Americans & Europeans.
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❖ 1868: a group of samurai rebelled and put a new emperor in power.
❖ Emperor Mutsuhito
❖ called Meiji (enlightened one)
❖ Meiji Restoration
❖ In theory, this returned power back to the emperor.
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Emperor Meiji
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❖ power returned to the emperor
❖ feudalism ended
❖ parliamentary government was installed
❖ strengthened the military
❖ based their army on the German model
❖ based their navy on the British model
❖ built up their industry
❖ created a modern currency
Meiji Rule
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Meiji Rule
❖ created railroad, postal, and telegraph networks
❖ built up their ports
❖ sent Japanese students to study in America and Europe to learn about Western technology and culture.
Grand Hotel - Tokyo
German Club - Yokohama
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Japanese Imperialism❖ 1894: Sino-Japanese War
❖ Koreans revolted against Chinese rule
❖ Japan steps in and defeats the Chinese
❖ Korea becomes “independent”
❖ Japan had special trading rights in Korea
❖ Later the Japanese officially invade Korea and Manchuria.
❖ Russians were not happy, they wanted to control this area.
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Russio-Japanese War❖ 1904: Japan attacked the Russian port of Port Arthur on the Chinese
coast.
❖ Most Europeans expected the Russians to win easily.
❖ Japan sunk 38 of 40 warships in Russia’s Far Eastern Fleet.
❖ 1905: Treaty of San Francisco
❖ Japan won
❖ Japan officially got control of Korea
❖ Korea became an official Japanese colony in 1910.
❖ Southern Manchuria became part of the Japanese sphere of influence.
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By 1914, Japan was a world power. It
was the only Asian nation that the Europeans and
Americans dealt with as an equal.
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Rurouni Kenshin
Historical Manga Series set during the Meiji Era
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