Tokugawa Japan
Tozama
Who were the 'outsider' Daimyo?
Satcho
What was the name of the alliance between Satsuma and Choshu, agreed in 1866, that toppled the Bakufu?
Sakoku
What was the policy of isolation that was ended afert hte arrival of the Americans?
The Tripartite Intervention
What was the name of the multinational force that denied Japan her full spoils after the Sino-Japanese War?
Iwakura Tomomi
Who was the leader of the Iwakura Mission, and author of the 1868 Charter Oath?
Sonnō Jōi
What was the nationalist movement with the slogan 'revere the Emperor; expel the barbarian'?
Boshin
What was the name of the civil war that led to the end of the Shogunate?
Mutsuhito
What was the Emperor Meiji's name?
The Tianjin Convention
What was the agreement between Japan and China to give written warning of any troops being sent to Korea?
Mori Arinori
Who was the architect of the Meji education reforms - assassinated in 1889?
Shi-nō-kō-shō
What was the name for the caste system in Tokugawa Japan?
Charles Richardson
Which British merchant was murdered by the Satsuma in 1862, leading to a British bombardment of Kagoshima the following year?
Roessler and Mosse
Who were the German advisors brought in to help draft the Meiji Constitution?
The Treaty of Shimonoseki
What was the 'unequal' treaty imposed by Japan on China after the Sino-Japanese War?
Saigo Takamori
Which Satsuma samurai led a rebellion against the Meiji government in 1877?
Bakumatsu
What was the name given to the final stages of the Shogunate (1853-1868)?
The Harris Treaty
What was the first of the Ansei Treaties, imposed by the US in 1868?
Jiyūtō
What was the name of the Japanese Liberal Party?
Tsushima
At what naval battle was the Russain fleet comprehensively routed by the Japanese?
Yamagata Aritomo
Which genro was PM (twice), Chief of the General Staff during the Russo-Japanese War, and the driving force behind military reforms?
1841-1843
When were the Tempo Reforms introduced?
5 clauses
How many clauses made up the Charter Oath of 1868?
Hashima Island
What coalmining and forced labour camp was also known as 'Battleship Island'?
21
How many 'Demands' were made by Japan of China in 1915?
Aleksey Kuropatkin
Who was in charge of the Russian forces during the Russo-Japanese War?