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Meiji Japan

Meiji Japan. Grade 8 Social Studies Chapter 15. Japan Changes Direction During the Meiji Era: 1868 - 1912. Commodore Matthew Perry. 1853 – Commodore Matthew Perry “Opens Up” Japan to Western Trade!. What Did the U. S. Want??. Coaling stations. More trading partners.

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Meiji Japan

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  1. Meiji Japan Grade 8 Social Studies Chapter 15

  2. Japan Changes Direction During the Meiji Era: 1868 - 1912 Commodore Matthew Perry

  3. 1853 – Commodore Matthew Perry“Opens Up” Japan to Western Trade!

  4. What Did the U. S. Want?? • Coaling stations. • More trading partners. • A haven for ship-wrecked sailors.

  5. Perry’s “Black Ships”

  6. The Treaty of Kanagawa - 1854

  7. Japan Learns a Lesson! In 1862, just before the start of the Meiji period, Tokugawa sent officials and scholars to China to study the situation there. A Japanese recorded in his diary from Shanghai… The Chinesehave 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.

  8. China’s “Unequal Treaties” • After the Opium War of 1839-1842, Japan was convinced that it had to Open Up to the West.

  9. The Shi-shi (“Men of High Purpose”) • Highly idealistic samurai who felt that the arrival of Westerners was an attack on the traditional values of Japan. • They believed that: • Japan was sacred ground. • The emperor, now a figurehead in Kyoto, was a God. • Were furious at the Shogun for signing treaties with the West without the Emperor’s consent. • Their slogan Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians!

  10. The Meiji Revolt - 1868 • A powerful group of samurai overthrow the Shogun. • Sakamoto Ryoma, the hero. • He helped Japan emerge from feudalism into a unified modern state.

  11. The Shogunate Is Overthrown! • The last Shogun. • Tokugawa Yoshinobu.

  12. The Emperor Is “Restored” to Power MEIJI “Enlightened Rule”

  13. EuropeanGoods • Europe began to “loom large” in the thinking of many Japanese. • New slogan:Western Science, Japanese Essence!

  14. The Japanese Became Obsessedwith Western Styles Civilization and Enlightenment!

  15. Everything Western Was Fashionable!

  16. Everything Western Was Fashionable! Japanese soldiers with their wives

  17. The Rulers Set the Tone with Western Dress Emperor Meiji Empress Haruko (1868- 1912)

  18. LandRedistribution Westernizethe SchoolSystem(Fr. & Ger.) Abolitionof the feudal system ModernBankingSystem Modernize the Army(Prussian) MeijiReforms WrittenConstitution(Germans) Build aModern Navy(British) Human Rights & ReligiousFreedom EmperorWorshipIntensified

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