IMPERIALISM – Reactions of Japan
AP World History
The Rise of Japan
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Tokugawa – 250 years of peace
 Shogun,
daimyo, samurai kept stability
 Alternate
attendance in Edo
 Strict/detailed
rules of behavior of society to
keep order
 Peace contributed to burst of economic growth
 Peasants

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
– still only one open port (Dutch)
 Commodore Perry (United States)
 Japan
 Sent
to demand humane treatment of castaways
 Right of American vessels to refuel
 Demand to open ports to trade
The Rise of Japan

Meiji Restoration – A Fresh Start
 Awareness
of Chinese resistance
 New young, Japanese rulers
 Eliminated
shogunate
 Wanted to save Japan through transformation of
Japanese society
 Willing 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 dismantled
 Almost 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
 Foundries,
enterprises
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
 Gains
 Same
advances in China and Russia
Taiwan, Korea, foothold in Manchuria
old imperial brutality