IMPERIALISM – Reactions of Japan

AP World History

The Rise of Japan Tokugawa – 250 years of peace

Shogun, daimyo, samurai kept stabilityAlternate attendance in Edo

Strict/detailed rules of behavior of society to keep order

Peace contributed to burst of economic growthPeasants grew more rice, rural enterprise

By 1750, urban, literate society

The Rise of Japan Tokugawa – problems

Merchants still had little status, but lots of $ Shoguns had status, but often in debt to lowly

merchants Corruption, famine, urban riots of poor Shogunate losing control

The Rise of Japan American Intrusion

Japan – still only one open port (Dutch) Commodore Perry (United States)

Sent to demand humane treatment of castawaysRight of American vessels to refuelDemand to open ports to trade

The Rise of Japan Meiji Restoration – A Fresh Start

Awareness of Chinese resistance New young, Japanese rulers

Eliminated shogunateWanted to save Japan through transformation of

Japanese societyWilling to use all that modern West had

The Rise of Japan Japanese Modernization

Relative peace gave Japan breathing room Reforms completely transformed Japan

Centralized (vs. the decentralization of China and Ottoman)

Confucian social order dismantledAlmost all Japanese became legally equal

Fascination with all things Western

The Rise of Japan Industrialization

Japan combined foreign with Japanese elements Gov’t took over and modernized

Tokugawa/daimyo enterprisesFoundries, munitions, dockyards, Factories infrastructure

Modernization completed without foreign debt Poor working conditions

The Rise of Japan

Japan was the only non Western country to

launch its own successful Industrial Revolution in the 19th

century!

The Rise of Japan Japan and the World

West recognizes Japan as an equal player Considered a “Great Power”

Japanese Imperialism Imperial advances in China and Russia

Gains Taiwan, Korea, foothold in Manchuria Same old imperial brutality