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  history of japan 1800 Tokugawa shogunate had ruled the Japanese islands for two hundred years.
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  The rebels seized Nanjing, the second largest city of the empire, and massacred 25,000 men, women, and children</a>
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  the Sat-Cho alliance forced the shogun to promise to end relations with the West.
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  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.
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  Japan launched a sur- prise attack on the Russian naval base at Port Arthur, which Russia had taken from China in 1898
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  Sun Yat-sen forms Revolutionary Alliance in China
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  President Theodore Roosevelt made a “gentlemen’s agreement” with Japan that essentially stopped Japanese immigration to the United States.
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  Japan defeats Russia.