1. Factors That Influenced Meiji Japan

2. A Recap  At a time when the rest of Europe began to explore and expand at the end of the Renaissance, Japan isolate.  This period is known as the Edo Period.  Edo means: Isolation  Japan’s emperor wanted to preserve Japan’s culture and safety of the country

3. More recap  Japan’s geography helped isolate them  Language, activities, and food became very distinct and strong in this time.  Japan had also a strong hierarchy. You were born into your position in society.  The Bakufu were the centralized military government headed by the shogun

4. Focus Questions:  How did outside influences create crisis?  How can individuals change the way others view the world?  How did Japan respond to the crisis?

5. Focus questions  How did Japan reshape its world view and begin to modernize?  How did the political system change?

6. Factors That Influenced Meiji Japan  This chapter focuses on the outside influences that forced Japan to make many changes that modernized the country.

8. What Made Japan Change To A Modern Country?  By the beginning of the 19th century, Japan began to feel the affects of the western world’s expansion and search for trade and wealth.  The Japanese where already trading with the Dutch East India Company.

9. What Made Japan Change To A Modern Country?  Russians began to build outposts on the Kuril Islands and introduce Christianity to the Ainu.  The Russians were eventually forced to leave by the Japanese.

10. What Made Japan Change To A Modern Country?  European influence, through the Dutch East India Company, convinced the Japanese they needed to learn more about Western civilization.  How they modernized was through: They imported and translated books about western history, institutions, military and science.

11. What Made Japan Change To A Modern Country?  In 1842, Japan learned that the powerful country of China had lost its independence to the European nation of Great Britain.  The Japanese were now afraid they might also lose their independence if they did not begin trading with the western nations.  At this time the United States was looking to open coal stations for its ships along the Japanese coast.

13. Commodore Mathew Perry  By 1854 the United States Navy, sent a fleet of large ships, led by Commodore Perry,  The U.S. pressured the Japanese to open ports and trade with the Americans.  Eventually, trade agreements were also made with a number of other European countries.

14. Japan could no longer isolate itself from the world. Being Forced Out of Isolation Created Two Opposing View Points and Crisis Within Japan.

15. Mathew Perry

16. Also Mathew Perry

17. Two Opposing Views To Isolation  One point of view wanted Japan to learn from the west and use western technology to remain strong and protect its culture.  Another group believed Japan should remain isolated and declare war on the western nations.  Eventually the opposing views created civil unrest within Japan.  Civil/civic = city Unrest= Tension/conflict

18. What happened…  In the end, a new government was established that supported trade with the west.  Traditions were also changed so that the people of Japan supported a single ruler or Emperor instead of the feudal system under the Shogun.