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1603 until 1868 – also known as the Edo period\n1635 – foreign trade limited to China, Korea, and Netherlands at Nagasaki a few times per year\nEmperor (mikado) ruled in name only\nActual power held by the shogun\nJapanese Feudalism\nShogun\nDaimyo\nSamurai – lived by Bushido, the “way of the warrior” (chivalric code)\nSamurai\nPeasants, Merchants, etc.\nRonin – those samurai without masters\nNinja – a warrior trained to use unorthodox fighting methods (assassination, espionage, martial arts)\nJapanese Culture and Economy\nReligion\nMixture of native Shintoism (living spirits in all things) and Chinese Confucianism (based on the teachings of Confucius)\nEconomy\nGrowing internal trade during the Edo period\nMerchants began to surpass the samurai in wealth\nRigid social stratification\nBut these limits were being tested by the end of the Tokugawa shogunate\nEnd of Japanese Isolation\nU.S. Commodore Matthew Perry (1794-1858)\n1853 – gunboat diplomacy\n1854 – trade treaty with the United States\nGreat Britain, Holland (Netherlands), and Russia soon gained similar trading rights\nTownsend Harris (1804-1878)\nUnited States Consul General to Japan\n1858 – commercial treaty between U.S. and Japan\nEuropean powers soon gained similar rights in Japan\nJapanese Reaction\nPros\nCons\n“Dutch Learning” (Western knowledge) became very popular among many doctors, scholars, and scientists\nWestern knowledge went against many traditional Japanese beliefs\nJapanese entrepreneurs, merchants, and budding industrialists stood to profit from increased trade\nTraditional holders of prestige and power (daimyos and samurai) did not tend to profit from increased trade\nResentment\nExtraterritorial rights of Americans and Europeans\nAnti-foreign uprisings (1863-1864)\nJapanese ports in turn bombarded by foreign ships\nSolution\n“If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em”\nJapanese could benefit from knowledge of what happened to China\nJapanese felt that they would be in a better position to renegotiate the trade treaties, and be less likely to be imposed upon, if they adopted Western ways (democracy, imperialism, industrialization, militarization, and modernization) – westernization\nMeiji Restoration\nShogun forced to relinquish power\nPower officially in hands of Emperor Mutsuhito\nHis reign was called the “Meiji”\nJapan westernized\nQuickly went to work crafting a constitution\nGovernmental Reforms\nDiet – Japan’s bicameral legislature\nFirst convened – 1889\nMeiji (Imperial) Constitution\nAdopted – 1890\nFollowed until the end of World War II\nEconomic Reforms\nAbolition of feudalism\nCurrency (yen) adopted, 1872\nEncouragement of foreign trade\nExpansion and encouragement of industrialization\nGrowth of factories\nFirst large factories manufactured textiles\nFirst textile factory workers were girls and women\nLand reform\nZaibatsu (large conglomerates) built and expanded\nMilitary Reforms\nBefore the Meiji era: Armies were run by local daimyo and thus not subservient to a central government\nMeiji era: Modern army and navy established which were loyal to the Japanese government\nUsed Prussia (Germany) as primary model\nFirm belief that if Japan was to be taken seriously by Western powers, and was to avoid China’s fate, Japan would have to compete militarily\nConscription (1873) – all men had to serve for three years after turning twenty-one\nSocial Reforms\nUniversal compulsory elementary education\nUniversities established\nWesternization of many laws\nTokyo University\nSocial Changes\nAdoption of Western architecture, fashions, music, and literary styles (magazines and novels)\nDiversity of intellectual and political thought\nGrowing independence and empowerment of women\nMovement of peasants from countryside to factories\nImperialization of Japan\nWhy?\nLack of fertile land for agriculture\nMarkets for finished products\nNeed for the raw materials of industry\nPopulati","cbCaivnWjmHxKpQd","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivnWjmHxKpQd","ppt",2601472,"English","# The Tokugawa Shogunate\n## Japanese Feudalism\n# Japanese Culture and Economy\n# End of Japanese Isolation\n# Japanese Reaction\n# Meiji Restoration\n# Governmental, Economic, Military, and Social Reforms\n# Imperialization of Japan\n## Meiji Japan at War\n# World War I and Interwar Diplomacy\n# Manchuria: Manchukuo\n# Japanese Invasion of China","[{\"question\":\"What was the Tokugawa shogunate’s political structure and ruling period?\",\"answer\":\"The Tokugawa family ruled Japan from 1603 until 1868 (the Edo period). 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