1. THE MEIJI RESTORATION AND JAPANESE IMPERIALISM CHY4U

2. From the 17 th to 19 th century Japan stayed “closed off” or isolated from the West…

3. 17 th Century Japan and the Western “Barbarians” ■The Jesuits (1549) and the Portuguese ■Growing Anti-European attitudes ■Japanese closure in 1635 ■The Dutch and Nagasaki Emperor (figurehe ad only) Shogun (ruler, tries to control lords) Daimyo (landowning lords) Samurai (fighters) Peasants, Artisans, Merchants

4. How did Japan, a country once closed off from the world in the early 19 th century, grow to become an imperial power? Booth, Anne. “Did it Really Help to be a Japanese Colony? East Asian Economic Performance in Historical Perspective”. Asia-Pacific Journal. May 2, 2007. Accessed April 4, 2016. http://apjjf.org/-Anne-Booth/2418/article.html

5. Video: Memoirs of a Secret Empire

6. What did “Opening Up” Entail? ■Most favoured nation: any privileges given to other foreign countries are also given to the “favoured” nation ■Access to greater number of Japanese ports ■After 200 years, Japan was no longer isolated from the West “True portrait of Commodore Perry, envoy of the Republic of North America.” Mortensen, Joan E. The Case for Commodore Perry in the Classroom. University of Texas at Dallas. 2008. Accessed April 4, 2016. http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/4.2/mortensen.html

7. Categorizing Reforms Type of Reform Centraliz ation Restoratio n of the Emperor’s Power Modernizatio n Military Political Economic Social Western Dress Kobayashi, Kiyochika. “Emperor Meiji and His Consort in the Plum Garden”. In The Harvard Art Museum. 1877. Accessed April 4, 2016. http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/29925

8. Type of Reform Centraliza tion Restoration of the Emperor’s Power Modernization Military One army Navy Compulsory military service for men Political Centralized government with authority in emperor Civil service created Constitution modelled after Germany Economi c Banking, railroads, ports, telegraphs, postal system, industrialization in shipyards, copper, coal steel Social Compulsory education for boys and girls Western Dress But many of these reforms could be put in two or more categories of restoration (eg. Centralization, restoration of emperor’s power, modernization). Together, these reforms all facilitated Japan’s transformation.

9. Emperor’s Poem ■“May our country, taking what is good, and rejecting what is bad, be not inferior, to any other.” (World History, 646) ■Put this quote in the context of: –Economic motivations –Social Darwinism –Nationalism –Imperialism

10. Japan and Social Darwinism ■1894 The First Sino-Japanese War: –A weakened China –An industrialized and modern Japan –Taiwan and treaty ports ■Annexing Korea: –The military police era

11. In your group, read the reaction to westernization in Japan Debates Western Culture (pg 314). –How would this perspective justify Japanese Imperialism? Where would you place this perspective on the political spectrum? –As we assess and share these reactions you should annotate your worksheet.

12. Kingston, Jeff. Uneasy Neighbors Across the Sea. Japan Times, August 22, 2010. Accessed April 4, 2016. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2010/08/22/general/uneasy-neighbors-across-the-sea/#.VylvE_krLcs How do these headlines embody Japanese perspectives after the Meiji Restoration? *Chosen: name for Korea under Japanese rule