CAUSES OF JAPANESE EXPANSION

CAUSES OF JAPANESE EXPANSION

• FROM 1600 TO 1867-
• Japan was ruled by the Tokugawa clan, which had become the largest and most powerful of japans various feudal samurai clans.
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SHOGUN

• The head of the dominant samurai clan acted as the "shogun", the commanding general of japan's armies.
• The Tokugawa clan used their domination to establish national unity, Japan had followed a policy of seclusion from the outside world- including from China.
• The last Shogun was Tokugawa Yoshinobu
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THE BOSHIN WAR & JAPAN AND THE U.S

• Broke out in 1867. as the Satsuma and Choshu were opposed to the toa suggestion that yoshinobu become the head of any new governing council.
• ONE OF THE MAIN wESTERN POWERS INTERESTED IN EXTENDING ITS INTEREST IN JAPAN WAS THE USA.
• Despite the us sending in a form of "gun-boat diplomacy" two warships in the latter year.
• ON july 8th, 1853, Commodore Perry arrived- with four warships, US request for various commercial agreements and promissing to return (with more warships) to receive Japan's response.
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JAPAN AND THE U.S

• The Tokugawa Shogunate, finally agreed to the treaty of Kanagawa in March 1854, which opened up two of Japan's ports to US trade, it ed to the rapid emergence of japan as an important regional and even international power.
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