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The Meiji Restoration
--- Japanese period beginning in 1853 when Japan went fro non-
industrial feudal nation to a modern, industrial and imperial
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Challenge of the West
--- Arrival of Matthew Perry (1853)
--- Unequal Treaties
-- Similar to the Treaties signed by the Qing dynasty
--- Perry's "Black Ships" steam into Tokyo Bay
--- Force the Japanese to establish trade and diplomatic
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Modernization: Meiji Restoration
-- Abolish feudal order
-- Administrative districts replace feudal domains
-- Daimyo removed is abolished
-- Constitutional government
-- Constitution of 1889 based on German model
-- Establishes constitutional monarchy with legislature (diet)
-- Emperor commanded armed forces, named prime minister, and
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Modernization: Meiji Restoration
-- Constitutional government (con'd)
-- Recognized individual rights
-- Could limit rights in the interest of the state
-- Suffrage limited
-- Only 5% of population could vote in the 1890 election
-- Japanese industrialization
-- Modernize transportation
-- Sold government businesses to private investors -
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Social Developments
-- No reforms to ease burdens on rural population
-- Massive population growth
-- Strained resources and kept labor costs low
-- Role of women
-- Maintain inferiority of women in the home
-- High-School education for women (1899)
-- Silk industry relied upon women working in factories -
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Internal Problems
--- By early 19th century, Japanese society was in turmoil
--- Declining agricultural productivity
--- Periodic crop failures, famine, and starvation
--- Harsh taxes on peasants
--- Samurai and daimyo are in debt to merchants
--- West arrives demanding trade with Japan -
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Causes of Meiji Period
-- Japanese saw what happened to their neighbor China, One
Japanese visitor noted... "The Chinese have become servants to the foreigners. Sovereignty may belong to China, but in fact it's no more than a colony of Great Britain and France". -
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Japan Changes
--- The Japanese overthrew the last Shogun and put their emperor
in charge.
--- Japan ended its policy of isolationism.
--- Emperor Meiji's government decided the only way through
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Meiji Reforms
- Land Retribution
- Westernize the School System (France and Germany)
- Modernize the Army (Prussian)
- Build a Modern Navy (British)
- Emperor Worship Intensified
- Human Rights & Religious Freedom
- Written Constitution (Germans)
- Modern Banking System
- Abolition of the feudal system
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In order to Industrialize you must.. IMPERIALIZE
-- Japan followed queue with other industrialized nations and went after an empire to get... GOLD! -
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Modernization: Meiji Restoration
Japanese industrialization (con'd)
-- Creation of zaibatsu
- Combination of state initiative and private investment
- Consolidates power into the hands of a few powerful families
- Many companies started by men of samurai origins -
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Japanese Imperialism
-- Sino Japanese War
-- Japan gains influence over Korea
-- Russo-Japanese War
-- Japan's navy leads to victory over Russia
-- Japan annexes Korea in 1910