Feudal Japan
This warrior class followed the Bushido code.
What is a samurai?
The Meiji Restoration began in this year.
What is 1868?
competing imperial ambitions and territorial disputes over Korea and Manchuria, with Japan launching a surprise attack on the Russian fleet at Port Arthur after negotiations failed.
What is the Russo Japanese war
This U.S. naval officer arrived in Japan in 1853 to demand trade rights.
Who is Commodore Matthew Perry?
Modeled after European nations, Japan adopted this type of government system during modernization.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
He unified Japan and became the first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate.
Who is Tokugawa Ieyasu?
This emperor was restored to power during the Meiji Restoration.
Who is Emperor Meiji?
Japan annexed this neighboring country in 1910.
What is Korea?
Before U.S. contact, Japan was ruled by this government, which enforced isolation.
What is the Tokugawa Shogunate?
Japan rapidly developed this kind of infrastructure, including railroads and factories.
What is industrial infrastructure?
This class of military leaders held the real power during the Edo Period.
What is the shogunate?
Japan rapidly industrialized by borrowing ideas from this continent.
What is Europe?
In 1905, Japan defeated this European power, shocking the West.
What is Russia?
This powerful daimyo attempted to unify Japan in the late 1500s.
Who is Toyotomi Hideyoshi?
Japan based its modern army on this European country’s military model.
What is Germany?
Feudal Japan's strict social class system was known as this.
What is the four-tier class system?
The feudal system was replaced with this form of government.
What is a centralized imperial government?
This was the name of Japan’s policy to expand its empire in Asia.
What is imperial expansion / Japanese imperialism?
This 1939 policy forced Koreans to adopt Japanese names.
What is SĹŤshi-kaimei?
“A rich country and a strong _____.”
what is army?
These were powerful feudal lords who ruled over domains.
Who were the daimyo?
The motto "Fukoku KyĹŤhei" means this.
What is "Enrich the country, strengthen the military"?
This war, starting in 1937, escalated Japan’s aggression in China and became part of WWII.
What is the Second Sino-Japanese War?
This 1894–1895 war marked Japan’s victory over China and its rise as an imperial power.
What is the First Sino-Japanese War?
This strategic port in northeastern China was captured by Japan during both the First Sino-Japanese War and later fought over again in the Russo-Japanese War.
What is Port Arthur?