Warm-up: Monday

Read the information about the history of tea. Answer the following questions:

1. Do you like tea? If so, what kind?2. Where did tea first develop?3. Describe the consumption of tea in England in

1700 and 1800.4. Why did the British begin growing tea in India?

Rise of Modern Japan

Primary source: The Seclusion of Japan

Rise of Modern Japan

What has happened to Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and China in the era of Western imperialism?

What do you think happens to Japan in the era of Western imperialism?

Where is Japan?

A. AB. BC. CD. D

BA

C

D

Japan 1600s-1800s

Japan imposed a strict “closed country” (sakoku) policy that prohibited Japanese from leaving and foreigners from entering.

By the 1800s, both Japan and China had a policy of _____ .

A. isolationismB. imperialismC. colonialismD. Hinduism

Western Influence on Japan

Just like in China, the Japanese tried to keep foreign merchants only at one port.

Think about the Westerners arriving in China. What happened in China?

Who showed up in Japan in 1853, wanting the Japanese to open up trade?

A. BritishB. FrenchC. ChineseD. Americans

Arrival of Commodore Perry 1853

Commodore Matthew Perry and his fleet of American ships arrive in Japan.

Arrival of Commodore Perry 1853

He brings a letter from President Fillmore asking Japan to open up to trade with the Americans.

The Americans also want better treatment of shipwrecked sailors.

Arrival of Commodore Perry 1853 The Americans come back eight

months later for the Japanese response, this time with an even larger fleet of ships.

What happened next?

A. The Japanese begin a war with the Americans.

B. The Japanese sign a treaty with the Americans.

C. The Americans colonize Japan.D. The Americans annex Japan.

Arrival of Commodore Perry 1853

The Japanese know that they can’t compete with the American military, so they agree to open up two ports to trade with the Americans.

Japanese Reaction

After the initial arrival of Commodore Perry, the Japanese look at what’s happening around them. They needed to make a choice: Hang on to tradition or change.

What choice would you make?

In order to industrialize and modernize, who did the Japanese try to imitate?

A. RussiaB. Europe and the U.S.C. AfricaD. China and Korea

Japan Westernizes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TFUFbFSW40&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1

Changing Japan

Japan aimed to imitate the Western powers, so they sought knowledge from around the world : Commissions traveled to Europe and the

U.S. to learn Western ways Copied American educational system Copied German political system

Soon, many visible changes are noticed in Japan…

"Steam train between Tokyo and Yokohama" by Utagawa Hiroshige III, 1875 One of Perry’s most impressive gifts to

the feudal government in 1854—a quarter-scale model train—had been reborn full-scale by the early 1870s, when the first railroad link between Tokyo and Yokohama was opened.

"Shimbashi Station" by Hiroshige III, 1874

Telegraph wires began to appear around the same time, along with outdoor street lamps (another of Perry’s impressive gifts had been a telegraph apparatus with a mile of wire). Heavy stone and brick Western-style architecture soon became a familiar sight in the Tokyo-Yokohama area.

Young women who had formerly been employed spinning and weaving cotton and silk in small cottage industries were quickly mobilized for larger-scale production using Western-style textile machinery.

“Album of Ten Prints Illustrating Sericulture: Unwinding Strands from Cocoons by Means of a Silk Reeling Machine” by Toyohara Chikanobu, 1880

“Illustration of Singing by the Plum Garden” by Toyohara Chikanobu, 1887

From the 1870s into the 1890s, to be counted as “high society” in Japan was virtually synonymous with being seen as “highly Westernized.” Woodblock-print artists dwelled lovingly on this, often placing their fashionable men and women in scenes that also included appreciation of Western music (harpsichords and chamber or choral groups) and easily accessible technological wonders such as the sewing machine.

When the feudal government was overthrown in 1868, power was "restored" to the emperor, who became a potent nationalist symbol in two contradictory ways. On the one hand, he was said to exemplify a "sacred and inviolable" tradition dating back to earliest times. On the other hand, the emperor and his family were presented as symbols of the nation's progressive "Westernization" and modernization. In the late 1880s, woodblock artists churned out many prints celebrating the imperial family, always imagining them in Western attire

After industrialization and modernization, in what other way did the Japanese imitate the West?

A. They begin taking territories.B. They take slaves from other places.C. They try to open up China for trade.D. They start to grow poppies.

All of the following are reasons why the Japanese wanted to expand EXCEPT:

A. They lacked natural resourcesB. They were smallC. They wanted world dominationD. They were densely populated

Japan had transformed itself in a relatively short time span.

BEFORE

Feudalisolatedweak

AFTER

ModernIndustrialworld power

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