Japan and the US/The Meiji Restoration

Japan and the US/The Meiji Restoration

1. 1837 and 1846

   • USA: Gun boat diplomacy in order to secure trading relations with Japan
     • Commodore Perry arrived in 1853

2. The Tokugawa shogunate

   • Treaty of Kanagawa in 1854
     • Opened two ports of Japan to US trade
     • Treaty of Amity and Commerce with the US in 1858

3. 1868

   • Resistance known as "Shishi" against Western "barbarians"
     • Yoshida Shoin
       • Executed in 1859 for anti-government activities and involvement in an assasination plot
     • Nationalist resentment at Western interference
       • Chosu clan leaders: Adopt an anti-Western policy
         • Satsuma clan joined them in the fighting of the 1860´s
           • Satsuma-Chosu clans were victorious
             • Edo was renamed "Tokyo"
               • Imperial system
                 • "Enrich the country, strengthen the military" to prosper
       • Modernize Japan´s armies

4. 1866

5. 1867

   • The emperor died and was replaced by Meiji
   • Shogun persuaded to restore political authority to the emperor

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