Feudalism
Specialist trained to serve the daimyo and protect his lands
Samurai
The largest group of people in the social hierarchy
Peasants
The Sat-Cho attacked the shogun’s palace resulting in restoration of power to the emperor - period of modernization
Meiji Restoration
Japan’s dramatic recovery after WWII
"Japanese Miracle"
Japan’s surprise attack on the US on Dec. 7th 1941
Pearl Harbor
Name one way Japan is modernized (think about the video and what you saw)
Robots, architecture, clothing...
Chief military commanders and hereditary governors of Japan - controls the tax rates & is in main control
Shogun
Naval commodore who opens Japan for trade
Matthew Perry
Japan's economic system in which the central govt play an active role in the economy after WWII
State capitalism
City in Japan where the 1st atomic bomb was dropped on Aug. 6th, 1945
Hiroshima
Modern day Tokyo
Edo
The landowners of each acre or region that control the samurai and the peasants below.
Daimyo
Land divided into 250 separate territories each ruled by a daimyo
Hans
US General who governed Japan from laid the foundations of a new Japanese society
Douglas MacArthur
Japanese soldiers dressed as Chinese and blew up the railway in Manchuria
Mukden Incident
A religion practiced in Japan - “The way of the Gods”
Shinto
The strict code of the samurai - “The way of the warrior”
Bushido
New territories created by Meiji – NO HANS
Prefectures
Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu
Were unifiers of Japan
Japan led a successful surprise attack on the Russian naval base and defeated the Russian fleet
Port Arthur
Japanese Manchuria; placed Henry Pu Yi back in control
Manchukuo