This is the history of Japan during the Meiji Era

1. Japan becomes an imperialist power Mr. Rey Belen PAREF Southridge Afternoon School

2. Japan Changes Direction During the Meiji Era: 1868 - 1912 Commodore Matthew Perry

3. 1853 – Commodore Matthew Perry “Opens Up” Japan to Western Trade!

5. Perry’s “Black Ships”

6. The Treaty of Kanagawa - 1854

7. Japan Learns a Lesson! I n 1862, just before the start of the Meiji period, Tokugawa sent officials and scholars to China to study the situation there. A Japanese recorded in his diary from Shanghai… The Chinese have become servants to the foreigners. Sovereignty may belong to China but in fact it's no more than a colony of Great Britain and France.

12. The Emperor Is “Restored” to Power MEIJI  “Enlightened Rule”

13. Newspaper Cartoon, 1870s? Enlightened Half-Enlightened Un-Enlightened

16. The Japanese Became Obsessed with Western Styles Civilization and Enlightenment!

17. Everything Western Was Fashionable!

18. Everything Western Was Fashionable! Japanese soldiers with their wives.

19. The Rulers Set the Tone with Western Dress Emperor Meiji Empress Haruko (1868- 1912)

20. Changing Women’s Fashions 1900 Styles The First “Miss Japan” (1908)

21. Meiji Reforms Abolition of the feudal system Land Redistribution Human Rights & Religious Freedom Build a Modern Navy (British) Westernize the School System (Fr. & Ger.) Modernize the Army (Prussian) Emperor Worship Intensified Written Constitution (Germans) Modern Banking System

22. A Constitutional Government Copied from the Germans Satsuma & Choshu Families The Emperor of Japan The Diet (Legislative Body) House of Representatives House of Peers 1889 Constitution of Japan

23. Expansionism & the Rise of Military Power New players on the block?

24. Sino-Japanese War: 1894-1895 The Meiji Emperor was in Hiroshima during the Sino-Japanese War

25. Soldiers on the Battlefield During the Sino-Japanese War The Treaty of Shimonoseki ended the war.

27. The Russo-Japanese War: 1904-1905 The Battle of Tsushima : The results startled the world!

28. President Teddy Roosevelt Mediates the Peace The Treaty of Portsmouth , NH ended the Russo-Japanese War.

29. Japan Annexes Korea

30. Japan Is a Player in China

31. Competition from Another “Pacific” Power Is on the Horizon

32. The U. S. “Great White Fleet”

33. But, Japanese Power Would Grow . . .

36. This is a List of Japanese board games . Name of the game Short description Western equivalent Renju Really just an advanced form of go-moku Pente; distant relative of tic-tac-toe Shogi Played on a 9x9 board; can use captured pieces against opponent Chess Sugoroku (one type) Race game Backgammon Sugoroku (another type) Race game Snakes and Ladders