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Modern Japan

Remarkable changes in the past 200 years Movement from isolation to world power https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nosq94oCl_M (John Green) start 4:55-7:45

The Meiji Restoration Tokugawa Ieyasu isolates Japan in 1630 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry lands in Tokyo Bay; show of force https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQMpnr4o8oU (4:36) Wants to use Japan as a refueling base Ends isolation

What effect might this meeting have? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jt_-dHsQw0 Perry 2:35

Samurai overthrow Tokugawa Shogunate Emperor is restored as head of govt. Meiji Restoration begins Japan builds modern industries and economy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCtuZ-fDL2E The Last Samurai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nosq94oCl_M (John Green) start 7:45-11:17 Becomes imperialistic

Japan in the 20th Century Allied with U.S. and Britain in WWI; expands holdings in Pacific Hurt by earthquake, depression in 1920’s 1930’s military takes control of Japanese govt.

Japanese Expansion

1937, Japan invades China The Rape of Nanking/China (The Forgotten Holocaust) Extreme cruelty and brutality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q7bkxKTdNY (Iris Chang documentary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhmH1MJ-sTA&feature=related (Nanking Documentary Trailer) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOxxHfjYKDQ (Japan at war; ethnocentrism start 4:23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILS6wGvOWO8 (Nanking Documentary, start at 29:00)

World War II Japan allies itself with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy; Axis Powers United States stops selling oil to Japan Japan attacks Pearl Harbor Dec. 7th, 1941 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt13c3olXkU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOxxHfjYKDQ (Japan at war start 4:23) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-XojOf4L6M

Pacific Theatre Very bloody Island Hopping Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa

Hiroshima and Nagasaki War drags on until 1945 President Harry Truman decides to use Atomic Weapons Atomic Bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 Ends World War II Was it necessary?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF4LQaWJRDg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvzDSnQCh6c&feature=SeriesPlayList&p=D7F1A06CE1780AD5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKFsZ-2Z21c

Post World War II Economy improves; helped by aid from the U.S. (Why?) Is a free market economy Japan becomes a constitutional monarchy

Culture Is largely a homogeneous culture. Why? People view themselves as part of a group rather than an individual Respect for elders Most live in urban areas

Cultural Diffusion Many similarities & cultural diffusion between U.S. and Japan Examples?