Meiji Restoration

Clans

feudal groups

Isolationism

 isolated from other countries

Archipelago

group of islands

Nara Period(710-784)

high end chinese period where chinese heavily influenced japanese culture

Shoguns

head of clan

Tokugawa Shogunate(1603-1867)

tokugawa leyasu wins battle of sekigahara in 1600

Commodore Mathew Perry

1853 arrives at Japan’s and demands fuel

Treaty of Kanagawa(1854)

signed under threat of force, ensured safety of American castaways, ends Japanese policy of exclusion, opened up ports in Japan

Harris Treaty(1858)

 if you accept my proposals, Japan will become the England of the Orient. Opened up additional 5 ports to the US, extraterritoriality for US citizens in Japan

Meiji Restoration

humiliation of Japan at hands of American, Japanese refused rule of shoguns, civil service system, shogun forced to abdicate, new government establish, restored true power, back to emperor who took name Meiji; powers of the diet,

• goal 2: transform and modernize Japanese society by borrowing new tech

Saigo Takamori

 held position in Meiji government but became disillusioned, tried to provoke war with Korea to restore confidence in the samurai, volunteered to go tinKorea and insult leaders so they would kill him but was rejected

Sino- Japanese War(1894)

japan and china fight for korea, Japanese wins, korea becomes sphere of influencE

Russo- Japanese War (1904)

control of Manchuria and Korea. Japan protects new spheres of influence in China and Korea. Russia wants its ports but loses against Japanese

Treaty of Portsmouth

broke by theodore roosevelt in Maine, gave more power to Japan, gave Japan ports in China, protectorate in Korea, control of Manchuria

Anglo-Japanese Treaty (1902)

acknowledged Japan as equal player among “Great Powers” of the world, ended extraterritoriality