1. Militarism in Japan
War in the Pacific
Unit 3.2 War in the Pacific

2. How did modern Japan emerge?
• Feudal Japan: Tokugawa
Shogunate vs. Satsuma-Choshu
• Coming of Americans: Treaty of
Kanagawa 1854
• Meiji Restoration 1868
– Capitalist economy: zaibatsus
– Western military
– Constitutional democracy
– Fukoku Kyōhei (Enrich the country,
strengthen the military)
• Satsuma rebellion under Saigo
Takamori
– Feudal resistance
• 1st industrialised Asian power
Unit 3.2 War in the Pacific