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Chapter 1 | Would you argue that Japan's imperialism comes from fear or arrogance? Make your argument and use information from the first reading to prove your point I think Japan's imperialism comes from fear, the goals of It's imperialism were to further sepereate Japan from Korea and China. Giving the emperor more powers and the slogan "rich country, strong country", were methods that proved sucessful in the Sino-Japanese war. The text states that they viewed Korea and China as threatening foreign dominions. Japan's foreign policy's underlying goal was about establishing colonial rule and national pride. I think that this imperialism started out of fear, but could've grown to be something of arrogance after continued victories. The Meji Restoration - 1920’s
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Chapter 2 | Please summarize the main points of the Chapter and include 2 Questions that you have from the reading. During and after the Meiji Restoration, japan had massive centralization and industrialization, this was partially due to western influence. Japanese society had more freedom economically and benefitted from modernization. The Chapter also talks about women in textile industry, and constantly growing heavy industry. There were some labor laws put in place but they were not heavily enforced, this resulted in a large uptake of labor unions, and the Factory act of 1911 was one result. military expansion also happened during this time. Newspapers also saw an increase in production, although only 50% of the population could read adiquately. there was an uptake of sports and movies during the Taisho period. They implimented a 3 year requirement on military service and the imperial army was strengthened. Overall, Japan saw a dramatic increase in economic stability (and nationalism as a result)from western influence. Taisho Era - 1920’s(1925<)
1. Were the newspapers used as a form of mass propaganda, or were they mostly run by the people? 2. How improved is industrial society in Japan now? |
Chapter 3 | Please summarize the main points of the Chapter and include 2 Questions that you have from the reading. As domestic and international tensions heightened, universal manhood suffrage began to expand after many years of little progress. Western tensions rose with the exclusion act and gentlemans agreement that limited immigration from japan to the US, taisho democracy knew short lived stability as the great depression hit. Voting rights were a struggle and the Kokuhonsha nationalist organization was formed. Prime minister Tanaka came into power and demanded anarchist and communist arrests. Chinese instability and warlord power were the center focus of Sun, the CCP, and GMD. Japan's place in international community felt threatened by US racist policies. Zhang's assassination brought the Tanaka Cabinet to resign, military control of the government began to grow. The washington conference brought attention to the naval arms race, they then created the 9 and then 5 power treaty, this gave Japan east asian water military control. Chapter 3 ends with increasing government control by the military. I did not read chapter 4 yet. Taisho Democracy - 1925-1930
1. How much influence did the Kokuhonsha organization have? and what did they do? 2. The reading says that the people saw Tanaka's foregn policy seemed a protection of japan's interests, what does that mean? |
Chapter 4 | Please summarize the main points of the Chapter and include 2 Questions that you have from the reading. Chapter 4 - Japan is in a lot of economic trouble, some of which stems from their involvement in WWI markets cuz their involvement was cut after WWI and their economy dropped - agrarian commmunity is suffering cuz silk value went down, rural is suffering in general - when rural people move to the city to improve life, they face condecension, but a positive is that a lot of rural men are joining the military - the manchurian incident is when the Kwantung army explodes a bomb and blames it on China, and then later they shoot them and gain control of Manchuria - the military was doing it without orders cause they thought the civilian government was out of touch and couldn't control the military. when the govt tries to send an advisor, he kind of does nothing, and military kind of ignores orders from the civ govt. - the military gains control over foreign policy, the LON tries to get Japan to withdraw from Manchuria but then they ignore them and create Manchukuo, where the Kwantung army appoint a puppet leader, and then they withdraw out of the LON, and then Manchukuo kind of becomes a new liability for Japan - Japan is feeling distant from the West, and their nationalism grows a lot - Japan sees themselves as a family and the emperor is the father, and they see themselves as the leader of Asia and they were divinely chosen - Japan starts to make everyone think the same politically and they all become nationalists, for example a professor is charged for talking ill of the emperor - emperor is on top, no individuality - there is a military coup to return to imperialism and they want to assassinate everyone and politicians, but theyre not really getting punished - they do more violence against political leaders - basically now everyone has to agree with the military and the conspirators are seen as heroes - two factions are created, the Kodo, which likes violence, and the Tosei, which don't like violence as much - the military is still violent and chaotic and still killing politicians, but then some people in the military realize they dont really like it and start calling the conspirators rebels I stole this from henry’s response. I did not read chapter 4 |
Chapter 5 | Please summarize the main points of the Chapter and include 2 Questions that you have from the reading. As the military gained more and more control over the government, Japan became a little more isolated from other countires. The eight-year war with China began. During the war, Japan invested in the Tangku Truce and the anti-comintern pact(anti-soviet pact with germany), which alloewed japan to move further into Manchukuo and into china. In China they supressed the CCP and Anti-Japanese activity. The fighting was focussed around Beijing while China launched an unsucessful bomb attack on Japan. In december of 1937, japan launched the attack on Nanking, they held Nanking for six weeks, where the tragedy of the Rape of Nanking took place, 350,000 civilians were tortured and killed. Japan was bitter about the effects of Western influence still, they wanted to keep Japan weak. Manchukuo-soviet relations were unstable and Japans actions were interfiring with their foreign relations as soviet fear increased. The Second Konoe Cabinet was put into place and aimed to focus all of Japans efforts on war, ending the war with China was their first priority. Japan Prepared itself for the posibilty of a war with the United States. Japan gave demands to the French and Dutch, giving them advantage and resources. The Tripartite pact with Germany and Italy was aimed to protect the three countries and aimed at the USA. The rise of the IRAA brought back some previous Japanese culture, trying to eliminate years of western influence, but it was heavily bent on control of the Japanese people. The idea of "thought control" was prevalant, and they had things like the tonarigumi which was a further form of small group control in neighborhoods. The chapter ends with a neutrality pact with the soviets and the end of the soviet threat. the war is 4 years in now. 1930’s
- What opprotunities did Hitlers successes in Europe bring for Japan? - What led to the failure of the Chinese Bombers in Shanghai? |
Chapter 6 | The Course of the War
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