Japan

Fahad AlatasGrade 11

A NEW ERA

Covering• Brief

Introduction• Modernization• Industrialization• Military Success

Brief Introduction• Modernization in mid 1800’s• Reestablishment of imperial

rule• Meiji (enlightened rule)• Emperor Mutsuhito

Modernization• Change of the capital city• Kyoto to Edo (Tokyo)• Formation of a new government• Introduction of Industrialization

• Education; highly trained people• Contact with Europe and

America• Formation of banks, buildings,

roads, factories, etc.• Private businesses (Zaibatsu)

controlled the economy• Mixture of the western and the

Japanese culture

Industrialization

Military Success• Expansion to east Asia and the Pacific Ocean

regions• War against the China; controlling the Korea • Rivalry against the Russia resulting war• Korea under control of Japan, again• Recognition of military power by the world• Joined WWI, sought of expansion of their

empire

References• World War I U.S. Library of Congress, Available:

http://countrystudies.us/japan/29.htm Last accessed: 30st August, 2010• Explore Japan: Government Web Japan, Available:

http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/explore/government/ Last accessed: 30st August, 2010

• Unit 3 Japan Section 1: A New Era, page 268-272