The Meiji Restoration
What nation in 1868 ended Japans "closed doors" policy?
What is the United States?
This sector was prioritized during the early stages of Japan’s modernization to support industry.
What is infrastructure?
Western fashion was promoted in Japan after this 1872 imperial decree.
What is the Hair-Cutting Edict?
Japan defeated this country in the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895).
What is the Qing Dynasty?
This former samurai led the Satsuma Rebellion in 1877 against the Meiji government.
Who is Saigo Takamori?
This class of people lost their privileges during Meiji reforms, including the right to wear swords.
Who were the samurai?
The government used these state-supported businesses, later sold to private owners, to industrialize.
What are zaibatsu?
This class of people gained more access to education under Meiji reforms.
Who are Women?
This 1905 treaty ended the Russo-Japanese War.
What is the Treaty of Portsmouth?
Some Japanese feared modernization would lead to the loss of this essential cultural trait.
What is Japanese identity or tradition?
The Meiji Constitution of 1889 was modeled after the constitution of this European country.
What is Prussia?
This British-imported technology revolutionized Japanese silk production during the Meiji era.
What is mechanized spinning?
This 1872 law restructured Japan’s schooling system based on American and European models.
What is the Gakusei education order?
Under this slogan, Japan sought to expel Western influence while adopting its technology and systems.
What is the Wakon Yosai Eastern ethics, Western science.
This political movement of the 1880s demanded a constitution and national assembly.
What is the Freedom and People’s Rights Movement?
This 1873 policy made by the Meiji government was controversial and contributed to peasant unrest.
What is universal military conscription?
This railway, completed in 1872, connected Tokyo to this major port city.
What is Yokohama?
Traditional Japanese theater such as Kabuki declined in popularity due to promotion of these Western styles.
What are Western drama and opera?
The Anglo-Japanese Alliance of 1902 was primarily directed against this country.
What is the Russian Empire?
This type of protest became common among peasants in response to tax burdens during modernization.
What are the peasant rice riot uprisings?
What is the 1871 diplomatic mission to the U.S. and Europe meant to study Western institutions and renegotiate unequal treaties.
What is the Iwakura Mission?
Name two industries that Japan heavily invested in during the Meiji period to support militarization.
What are steel and shipbuilding?
Name one Western philosopher or thinker whose ideas were introduced to Japanese education during the Meiji period.
Varied Response:
Who is John Stuart Mill?
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
Who is Herbert Spencer?
Name the German military expert who helped modernize the Japanese army during the Meiji period.
Who is Jakob Meckel?
Name the group or party that emerged in 1881 demanding civil liberties and greater representation.
What is the Jiyuto Liberal Party?