1. Warmup 5/14
What do the people of your role want Japan to do in response to the Perry Crisis?
What is important to them?

2. Logistics Quiz 8.3 Friday Unit 8 Test Tuesday Japan Japan vocab
Imperialism
Motives
Japan vocab
China
Perry Crisis
Africa
Bakumatsu
Meiji

3. The 3 roles Use the worksheet. Fill out the beliefs of your role.
Use other people in class to fill out the details of each role.

4. Bakumatsu Use the worksheet.
Read the two treaties on the document “Opening of Japan.”
Respond to each treaty on your worksheet.
Ignore the part on the backside that says “wait until after lecture”
Whole sheet finished 8:35

5. Notes: Meiji Restoration
After the Perry Crisis, the Samurai and Tozama work together to overthrow the shogun.
Bakumatsu: the period during which the overthrow takes place
Meiji Restoration: when the emperor is given power again at the end of Bakumatsu

6. Notes: Samurai
Many Samurai turned against the shogun because they felt that he betrayed Japan.
Afraid the new influence of the West would destroy Japanese culture.
Many joined anti-shogun nationalist groups called “Ishin shishi”

7. Notes: Sonnō jōi
The rallying cry for these nationalist groups was “Sonnō jōi”
This means “revere the emperor, expel the barbarian.”

8. Notes: Bakumatsu
After the Harris Treaty, Ishin Shishi began to perform acts of political terrorism.
Members of the government were murdered in the streets
The assassins were named “Hitokiri” – manslayers, and viewed as heroes by some.

9. Notes: Tozama The Tozama already hated the Shogun.
They exploited the political violence to delegitimize the shogunate and take power for themselves.

10. Notes: Boshin War
The forces of the Tozama (backed in secret by Britain) revolted against the Shogun.
A bloody one year civil war toppled the shogun and a new government arose.

11. Notes: The Meiji Restoration 1868
The new, young Emperor Meiji removed the shogun from power and named himself the head of government.
The first emperor to rule Japan since 1336.

12. Notes: The Meiji Period 1868-1912
Under Meiji’s rule, Japan would:
Industrialize rapidly
Modernize its army and navy
Push out western influence
Become an imperial power in East Asia