How Did The Meiji Restoration Become A World Power Of Japan?

The government than also led in the way of building railways and shipping lines, telegraphs and telephone systems, three shipyards, ten mines, fifty-three consumer industries. The Meiji Government opened their borders, allowing japan to improve their basic infrastructure, improving communication and to be able to travel from city to city easier. The markets were often based on main roads/path ways, rivers and special temples so that the local sellers are able to easily bring their items to the markets, according to (The Program for Teaching East Asia 2008). In doing this Japan was able to become more richer and Emperor Meiji was able to turn Japan into a modern world power as we see it

Besides changes in political, economic, and social changes, Japan's relations with its neighbors mainly changed after the Meiji Restoration. It has also been mentioned that “a variety of changes in Japanese society, economy, and politics, including the introduction of Western values of civilization and enlightenment, industrialization, abolition of feudalism and establishment of a centralized, constitutional government” (Imperialism). Japan's expansion was, similar to other changes taking place, the result of emulation of and conflict with the Western countries. Japan has had both positive and negative impacts from imperialism politically, culturally, and also economically with women, the lower classes, the educated, and also the businessmen. These aspects were the most “affected” by imperialism and its bringings. Like political rights, money, schools/education, and businesses and imperialism impacted these in both good and bad ways.

In Peter Duus’ Japanese Discovery of America, the author shows the learning experience that Japan went through in order to become one of the strongest countries in the early 20th century. From 1797 when the first American ship arrived in Japan, to 1879 when President Grant visited the Meiji emperor, Japan, not one of the strongest countries economically and militarily at the time, had interactions with multiple countries that included Russia, England and Portugal. However, Japan’s Confucianism belief and the development of the Tokaido Road served as roots for their quick rise to modernization. Even though multiple countries were cooperating with Japan, the relations with the United States proved to be the most

By the nineteenth century Western nations had developed superior military technology than other countries. Western countries were able to control other nations by coercing them into unfair trading treaties which would leave the country economically dependent on them. The countries rarely resisted successfully due to their insufficient military power. This occured often Asia with only Japan and Thailand remaining independent. Only Japan thrived however and became an imperial power. Japan was an isolated country until the United States forcibly opened it to trade. Japan experienced a regime change following a tumultuous time in which western nations coerced Japan into trade treaties. The new government favored capitalism and industry which lead to Japan industrializing impressively fast through “top down” government mandated modernization. Western imperialism forced Japan to modernize in order to remain a sovereign and successful state. Modernization in this case was synonymous with becoming more like the West. Imperialism drastically changed Japanese economic interaction as well as Japanese culture and class system because modernization included becoming more like the West in most aspects but their treatment of women remained the same because the West did not treat women very differently.

The Tokugawa shogunate was a transition period in which Japan began to modernize and began trading due to the arrival of Commodore Perry. Society during this period was based on strict class hierarchy with tight restrictions for social mobility. With urbanization, came an increase reliance on markets and merchants for funds which increased the need and want for trade with the Western nations. The images displayed in chapter two show the progress of events and how the Western nation influenced Japan. It begins with images of how the Japanese viewed the world, moving on towards the arrival of Commodore Perry, to the modernization of the port cities where a lot of trade occurred, to the beheading of the domain lord by anti-foreign Japanese citizens,

The Japanese scholars were sent to study abroad and observe the Western sciences and languages to transform the Tokugawa Japanese agrarian economy. The introduction of Western technologies and ideas advanced the Japanese economy. The development of infrastructures such as railroads and telegraphs allowed Japan to develop new industries. Transportation and communication networks were advanced from large governmental investments. The government supported the growing businesses and

The people of Japan knew that the time for change had come, and in 1868 a group of samurai overthrew the Shogunate. This eventually led to the rise of the Meiji Restoration in 1889. The western countries were much more advanced compared to Japan during the industrial revolution and if they were to become a global power, Japan would need to advance as well. The Meiji Restoration was brought up upon western ideology, which led to new advanced technology along with rapid social and economic growth and the formation of a national military. The Meiji restoration had occurred in the 19th century because Japan needed a change in order to advance during the industrial revolution. The restoration was the change, that eventually led Japan to become an international force. For decades the high tariffs of the unequal treaties affected my pay and my life. Though this new restoration has brought more jobs and better pay for us

Between the years 1867 and 1912 in Japan, the Emperor Meiji was in command of the Japanese empire. Meiji was a revolutionary emperor that succeeded on the overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate (the last Japanese feudal military government). Meiji’s command dramatically transformed Japan from being a feudal country into one of the greatest powers of the modern world. He changed Japan by popularizing modernization, westernization and improving the education system of the country. Nationalism provided the new young innovative and contemporary conservative generation of japan motivation to grow in the areas concerned; and implemented ideals that encouraged the notions of the west (westernization), that being industrialism and a new educational system, bringing them into the modern day. This new outlook

When the Meiji Restoration flourished Japan from an agronomic nation to rapid modernization, they were using Western countries as models to industrialize and develop their economy and society. They were not only to better themselves; learning from the West came the goal of wanting to be their equal. Japan tried to shape into countries like France and Britain to prove that they deserve to be a world power, thus starting Japanese imperialism. After the Sino-Japanese war, both Korea and Taiwan were annexed to Japan, where the Japanese used militant colonial rule and assimilation to what seemed like a benefit to them was exploitation to the respective cultures.

The biggest change during the Meiji restoration was the schooling of the Japanese children as back in feudal Japan it was only the high class and nobles that got to go school and now after the Meiji restoration it is everyone. (Asia for educators, 2009) (Brian Platt, 2014) Back in feudal japan people had to follow their strict class but after the Meiji restoration the people of japan had the opportunity to change their class, live somewhere else and the people were also allowed

After the initial treaty with western countries, a series of events unfolded along with the desire for change in Japanese ideologies. Additionally, the outcome caused the Tokugowa shogunate to weaken thus lead to the Emperor seizing power from the shogunate. With foreign countries aiding Japan, the people of the country began to take in Western ideologies into their culture and daily lives. Moreover, Japans contact with a foreign country’s allowed the country to gain momentum in their cultural development but also led to the fall of feudalism in the land.

As Japan exited the Tokugawa period and moved into the Meiji era in the in the mid-to-late-19th, the island nation experienced the immense changes associated with the movement of a state into modernity. From the establishment of new institutions to the centralization of state authority, life in Japan was forever altered, but perhaps nothing represented the shift more than the adoption of the Meiji Constitution. This document, heavily based off of its Western counterpart, truly codifies Japan’s shift from a splintered, feudal society to a modern, imperial state. Given this importance, an analysis of this document seems prudent; an analysis that looks at the climate surrounding the adoption of the document, and the document’s noted similarity

In 1868, there were 400,000 samurai. Some men were needed as officers, in the new army, but the Samurai were otherwise redundant. Thus, the Emperor made the following orders: right to wear swords abolished, prohibition on engaging in trade, agriculture, and business abolished and samurai to be given small pensions/compensation. However, the treatment of the samurai lead to Saigo’s Rebellion in 1877 but this was easily crushed by the new Japanese Army. Furthermore, the move away from the land saw a reduction in the peasantry and the growth of an urban proletariat (working class). The economic growth and educational change in Japan resulted in the rise of a professional and commercial middle class; a military class was also growing at this time. Education became a large factor in Japan’s modernisation as a literate population was required to be able to use the new technology. In 1872 compulsory primary education was introduced and by 1906, 96 percent of children were at school, and could carry on their education beyond the primary level if intellectually capable. An education program could also indoctrinate students with the correct values of patriotism, obedience and loyalty which further appealed to the Oligarchy as it meant it would be easier to control the people brought up on these values. The social reforms in Japan played a large part in its modernisation and how effective it was at modernising due to the fact

Between 1968 and 1912, Japan was going through a reformation called Meiji Restoration in order make the country strong as western countries. It had caused changes in many parts of Japan such as society, government, military, etc. Some of these changes still can be seen in the Japanese society today such as emperors are honored by Japanese citizens and seen as a special figure. Since this reformation had a great impact on development of Japan, it can be consider as a very important part of Japanese history.This study will seek to answer the question: To what extent did the Meiji Restoration succeeded to reform and strengthen Japan? In order to answer the question, the investigation will analyze military reform and economic reform caused by

Japan emerged from the Tokugawa-Meiji transition as the first Asian industrialized nation. Domestic commercial activities and limited foreign trade had met the demands for material culture in the Tokugawa period, but the modernized Meiji era had radically different requirements. From the beginning, the Meiji rulers embraced the concept of a market economy and adopted British and North American forms of free enterprise capitalism. The private sector — in a nation blessed with an abundance of aggressive entrepreneurs — welcomed such change.