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Meiji Restoration and Russia – A Comparative Analysis of State-Sponsored Industrialization and China too!

Japan: A Review and a look to where we are going in the lesson as well as beyond

Arrival of Matthew Perry

Do you see a point of synthesis with China at all?

Treaty of How does the Treaty of

Kanagawa The shogun agreed to open two ports to American ships, not necessarily for trade but for refueling/ supply spots The US received extraterritoriality and won most favored nation clause Britain, France and Russia quickly won similar rights Like the Chinese, 12 years earlier, the Japanese resented the humiliating terms of the unequal treaty***Japan’s 200 plus years of self-imposed isolation was over

Kanagawa compare to the Treaty of Nanjing?

The Meiji Restoration, The Diet, Zaibatsu

Any continuities from the Tokugawa Period?

Evaluate the political, military, economic, social and cultural aspects of the Meiji Restoration.

Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese War

What would be the pivotal point that allowed these victories to happen?

Boxer Rebellion:

Japan Points of Comparison Russia

Stable Gov’t

Human Resources

Natural Resources

Capital Resources

Want of Change

Any Questions? Comments? Really important!!