Imperial Japan

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  • 1800

    1800
    By 1800, the Tokugawa shogunate had ruled the Japanese islands for two hundred years.

  • 1853

    1853
    In the summer of 1853, an American fleet of four warships under Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in Edo Bay (now Tokyo Bay).

  • 1858

    1858
    In 1858, U.S. consul Townsend Harris signed a more detailed treaty.

  • 1863

    1863
    the Sat-Cho alliance (from Satsuma-Choshu) forced the shogun to promise to end relations with the West.

  • 1868

    1868
    In January 1868, their armies attacked the shogun’s palace in Kyoto and proclaimed that the authority of the emperor had been restored.

  • 1889

    1889
    The country was divided into 75 prefectures. (The number was reduced to 45 in 1889 and remains at that number today.)

  • 1904

    1904
    In 1904, Japan launched a surprise attack on the Russian naval base at Port Arthur, which Russia had taken from China in 1

  • 1905

    1905
    After their defeat, the Russians agreed to a humiliating peace in 1905.

  • 1907

    1907
    In 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt made a “gentlemen’s agreement” with Japan that essentially stopped Japanese immigration to the United States.

  • 1910

    1910
    In 1910, Japan annexed Korea outright.