Imperial Japan

  • 1800

    1800

    history of japan 1800 Tokugawa shogunate had ruled the Japanese islands for two hundred years.
  • 1853

    1853

    The rebels seized Nanjing, the second largest city of the empire, and massacred 25,000 men, women, and children</a>
  • 1863

    1863

    the Sat-Cho alliance forced the shogun to promise to end relations with the West.
  • 1889

    1889

    the Tokyo School of Fine Arts was established to promote traditional Japanese art. Japanese artists searched for a new but truly Japanese means of expression.
  • 1904

    1904

    Japan launched a sur- prise attack on the Russian naval base at Port Arthur, which Russia had taken from China in 1898
  • 1905

    1905

    Sun Yat-sen forms Revolutionary Alliance in China
  • 1907

    1907

    President Theodore Roosevelt made a “gentlemen’s agreement” with Japan that essentially stopped Japanese immigration to the United States.
  • 1910

    1910

    Japan defeats Russia.