5.5 MEIJI JAPAN

Tokugawa shugante

last fuedal military government

shogun

a military leader who had real power instead of the emperor

tokugawa leyasu

unified japan

commodore matthew perry

U.S navy officer, who led an expidition to edo with four war ships to open trade

declarartion of advanced war

matthew promised he would come back if they dobt accept this treaty

Treaty of kanagawa

opened two ports to U.S ships

extraterritorial rights

laws of the home nation apply not host nation

Emperor Mutsuhito

meiji restoration

sino japenese war

japan wins, destroying Chinese navy

russo japenese war

japan won, major win over european powers

treaty of portsmouth

russia had to give japan all captured territoried and forced russia to withdraw from Manchuria