Modernization in Japan

• TREATY OF KANAGAWA

  - US Commodore Matthew Perry stunned the Japanese with their modern ship that led the Tokugawa shogun to receive them
• TREATY OF KANAGAWA

  - US President Millard Filmore sent a letter to the shogun to accept free trade
• TREATY OF KANAGAWA

  - The Treaty of Kanagawa was signed in 1854 opening the Japanese ports for US for trading
• TREATY OF KANAGAWA

  - By 1860, several treaty ports were created that gave extraterritorial rights to the foreign nations
• MEIJI REFORM AND MODERNIZATION

  - Emperor Mutsuhito formed a large following of dissenting Japanese to overthrow the shogun
• MEIJI REFORM AND MODERNIZATION

  - Japan was now ruled by the Emperor from 1867-1912. This was known as the Meiji Period which means the Enlightened rule
• MEIJI REFORM AND MODERNIZATION

  1. Government officials were sent abroad to study and observe Western ways
  2. They pattered the government in German way like the framing of constitution from German model
  3. Army was shaped by the discipline German armies and British navy
  4. Universal public education was adapted from the American educational system
  5. Constructed railroads, built factories, mined coals
• Imperial Japan: Sino-Japanese War

  - Japan opened 3 trading ports in Korea in 1876
• Imperial Japan: Sino-Japanese War

  - Since China and Japan had similar interests to Korea, the two pledged not to send their armies into Korea in 1855
• Imperial Japan: Sino-Japanese War

  - In 1894, Chinese violated after a revolt against the Korea monarch broke and Chinese troop was sent to appease the rebellion
• Imperial Japan: Sino-Japanese War

  - Japan reacted by sending forces to Korea to combat the Chinese troop. This will be known as the Sino-Japanese War
• Imperial Japan: Sino-Japanese War

  - They ended with a treaty that gave Japan first colonies –Taiwan and Pescadores
• Imperial Japan: Russo-Japanese War

  - In 1904, Japan waged war against Russia as both countries wanted to take full control of Manchuria
• Imperial Japan: Russo-Japanese War

  - Japan ousted Russian armies from Korea
• Imperial Japan: Russo-Japanese War

  - US President Theodore Roosevelt mediated the signing of the treaty of Portsmouth stipulating the withdrawal of Russian forces in Manchuria
• Japanese Occupation in Korea

  - Korea became a protectorate of Japan
• Imperial Japan: Russo-Japanese War

  - Japan gained complete control of Korea that in 1907 the king of Korea had to turnover it to Japan
• Imperial Japan: Russo-Japanese War

  - Korean Imperial Army was

  abolished, and Korea officially annexed to Japan in 1910