Pressure from the outside
What Commadore Perry wanted from Japan
What is trade (coal) and protection
What the response to treaties showed
What is the Shogun is weak?
Emperor Meiji (enlightened one)
Who is an educated, rich merchant and started to reign over Japan at 14?
The group that had almost the same lifestyle after the return of the Emperor
What are Commoners (still have high taxes and peasant life)?
The treaty of Konogawa
What is Japan opened two ports for American trades?
The year the Shogun resigned
What is 1868
The systems that were abolished during the rule of the emperor
What are the feudal, samurai and daimyo (land owning) systems?
Education system in Meiji Japan
What is western education (USA and France) but changed to traditional learning in early 1880 (believed that educated people make strong country)?
Manifest destiny
What is Americans believe they had to expand their territory to all of North America and onwards?
A crisis
What is a time of trouble?
The role of samurais in the new Government
What is became advisors for the emperor (especially warfare)?
The Industrial revolution
What is a period started in mid 1700s (manual labor to machines) and Japan went through it to catch up to other nations?
The Unequal Treaties
What is Japan establishing trade between more nations because of the lack of power?
The person who took over Japan over a civil war (restored).
Who is the Emperor (Mutsuhito or Meiji)?
An Oligarchy
A group of unelected rich/elite people that form a government?
Borrowing Ideas
What is selective amount of Japanese people go out and study other technology (ships, military, construction, medicine and culture) and hire experts to help?
What is to open trade with other nations, if it doesn't work, they go back into isolation?
The signs/crisis that showed that the shogun was weak
What are riots, rebelling daimyo, imprisoned/exiled samurai and foreign ships?
The five charter oath
What is
1. People will have meetings through discussion about government
2. People support the government
3. Everyone can follow their passions (no outcasts)
4. Old harmful laws abolished
5. Adapt some western culture/technology
?
Japanese Business system
What is government build and planned essential industries, one the business is profitable, the industry is sold at low cost to companies?