Political Division
Shogun
Samurai ruling class
*Nagasaki
Dutch and Chinese
“Black Ships”
Tokyo Bay, July 1853
Millard Fillmore
4 ports of trade
Extraterritorial rights
Samurai revolt in western Japan
Young samurai as leaders
Tokugawa: *Samurai
Meiji: Universal conscription, modern weapons
Tokugawa: Samurai on top
6% of the populace
Stipends
Meiji: Samurai privileges abolished
Tokugawa: Private education for elite
Meiji
3 grades of public education
Universities
Learning from the West
Trips/study abroad
Foreigner teachers in Japan
Translations
Tokugawa: Feudal domains
Meiji
46 Prefectures
Constitution
Tokugawa: Cottage industry
Meiji
Weapons
Textile factories
1. Why did the United States want to force Japan to open up to foreign trade? Why did Japan's rulers acquiesce? What are the similarities and differences between Japan's confrontation with the U.S. and China's with Britain during the Opium War?
2. In response to the crisis of western intervention, what reforms did Japan's Meiji government carry out?
3. Why are Japan's reforms considered to be successful while China's are considered to be failures?
1. How were the government and society of Tokugawa Japan organized?
2. How were Japan's government and society reorganized after the Meiji Restoration?
1. How does Iwasaki Yataro use use a nationalistic message to inspire his employees at Mitsubishi? Do you think that his nationalism was sincere?
1. What attitudes toward American imperialists and western culture are presented in these Japanese pictures? What can explain the differences in Japanese perceptions of westerners and their culture?
1. According to Pomeranz, how did advances in agriculture help Japan to industrialize ?