AIM: HOW DID THE MEIJI RESTORATION MODERNIZE JAPAN & END ITS ISOLATION? JOURNAL ENTRY: WRITE, TURN, & DISCUSS IF YOU WERE THE EMPEROR JAPAN FOLLOWING THE END OF THE TOKUGAWA SHOGUNATE, WHAT DOMESTIC POLICIES WOULD YOU ESTABLISH TO MODERNIZE JAPAN?

I. MEIJI RESTORATION a. 1868: Political program in which group of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization, industrialization and imperialism. b. Mutsuhito (Meiji or “Enlightened Ruler”) became emperor.

c. MEIJI REFORMS 1. Embraced all foreign ideas, such as a new educational system, conscript army and a new communications system.

d. COPIED WEST 1. Government structure: Germany 2. Navy: Great Britain 3. Army: Prussia

4. Introduction of postal service, telegraphs, railroads, harbors, banking, clocks and calendars. 5. Increased coal production.

6. Students were also sent to Great Britain, Germany, and the U. S 6. Students were also sent to Great Britain, Germany, and the U. S. to learn ways of the west and to return to share this with their Japanese compatriots.

AIM: WHAT WERE THE MOTIVES & EFFECTS OF JAPANESE IMPERIALISM? JOURNAL ENTRY WRITE, TURN, & DISCUSS Imagine that you are a Japanese person watching events unfold in the 1850s and 1860s. How might you react? Do you see alternatives to the opening of your country to foreign trade? Do you agree that in order to compete with the Western powers, your nation must begin to behave like the Western powers? Explain

I. JAPANESE IMPERIALISM 1. Japan needed natural resources for industrialization such as iron ore and coal. Japan used it’s army and navy to initiate an imperial expansionist foreign policy acquire the essential natural resources for modern industrialization.

2. As a result, Japan became involved in the following wars for imperial prowess: Sino-Japanese War – Obtains Korea. Russo-Japanese War –Obtains Manchuria. World War I – Obtains forfeited German colonies in Asia.

CONCLUDING JOURNAL ENTRY HOW WOULD WORLD HISTORY BE DIFFERENT? THE MEIJI RESTORATION ALLOWED JAPAN TO START A WHOLE NEW ERA OF INDUSTRIALIZATION AND IMPERIALISM. WHAT IF JAPAN NEVER ADOPTED THE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF WESTERN EUROPE HOW WOULD ITS HISTORY BE DIFFERENT? HOW WOULD WORLD HISTORY BE DIFFERENT?