Mayor events in Japan´s History by Ricardo Andres Driotez Franco

Mayor events in Japan´s History by Ricardo Andres Driotez Franco https://padlet.com/df0301/63bus6n4q15skq4 en-us 2023-09-21 15:54:46 UTC 2023-09-25 00:09:51 UTC hello@padlet.com Mathew Perry arrival (1853-1854) df0301 https://padlet.com/df0301/63bus6n4q15skq4/wish/2714909692 Commodore Mathew Perry arrived in Japan in 1853, his reasons? He wanted to force Japan to enter into trading with Western culture after Japan had spent more than two centuries of isolation. Japan accepted Mathew Perry's terms mainly because of China's recent defeat against Western countries in the opium war. ]]> 2023-09-21 16:08:57 UTC https://padlet.com/df0301/63bus6n4q15skq4/wish/2714909692 Treaty of Kanagawa (1854) df0301 https://padlet.com/df0301/63bus6n4q15skq4/wish/2714929540 This Treaty was also called Perry Convention because this meant Perry´s objective being concluded; this treaty represented the first treaty of Japan with a Western nation, the decision to accept this treaty was mainly influenced by the overcoming and visible military power the United States had. ]]> 2023-09-21 16:22:19 UTC https://padlet.com/df0301/63bus6n4q15skq4/wish/2714929540 The Meiji Restoration (1868) df0301 https://padlet.com/df0301/63bus6n4q15skq4/wish/2714966828 This was the revolution in Japan's history, it happened in 1868 and it consisted mainly of the demise of the Tokugawa shogunate and return to the control of the country to direct control under the Meiji Emperor, this period meant an economic change, social change, and also a political change which meant a different government system, all of this was brought with the modernization of the western cultures. ]]> 2023-09-21 16:46:00 UTC https://padlet.com/df0301/63bus6n4q15skq4/wish/2714966828 The Boshin War (1868-1869) df0301 https://padlet.com/df0301/63bus6n4q15skq4/wish/2715230774 The Boshin War was a civil war, this war included the remaining shogunate and the new Meiji government, the last battle between them happened at Hakodate and it was the last remaining of the shoguns, when they lost this battle, it carved the way for the new empire and with this the Meiji restoration was complete. ]]> 2023-09-21 20:18:53 UTC https://padlet.com/df0301/63bus6n4q15skq4/wish/2715230774 Abolition of the Samurai class (1871-1873) df0301 https://padlet.com/df0301/63bus6n4q15skq4/wish/2715239946 During the new reformation, the government started to create a new reformation in which they would see everybody as equal and the samurai would lose all of their privileges, not every samurai was able to adapt to the new rules of the Meiji government. ]]> 2023-09-21 20:30:35 UTC https://padlet.com/df0301/63bus6n4q15skq4/wish/2715239946 First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) df0301 https://padlet.com/df0301/63bus6n4q15skq4/wish/2715244427 This war marked the emergence of the new Japan and showed the rest of the world how weak the Chinese empire was at that time. This was caused by a conflict; the main reasons were for the possession of Korea. Both countries had interests, which was the main reason for the conflict. ]]> 2023-09-21 20:36:34 UTC https://padlet.com/df0301/63bus6n4q15skq4/wish/2715244427 Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) df0301 https://padlet.com/df0301/63bus6n4q15skq4/wish/2715245265 Russia had come to Asia with an expansionist idea, but they lost Therefore Japan became the first Asian power to overcome a European country. Because of the ideas that Russia had Japan decided to strike first, Russia ignored Japan's preparation and intentions of attacking them. ]]> 2023-09-21 20:37:41 UTC https://padlet.com/df0301/63bus6n4q15skq4/wish/2715245265 Annexation of Korea (1910) df0301 https://padlet.com/df0301/63bus6n4q15skq4/wish/2715255131 During this period Japan and Korea both agreed on a treaty, in 1910 becomes official one of the terms was that the emperor of Japan would rule above the emperor of Korea, and Korea would become Japan´s protectorate until 1945. ]]> 2023-09-21 20:50:59 UTC https://padlet.com/df0301/63bus6n4q15skq4/wish/2715255131 Japan´s Twenty-one Demands (1915) df0301 https://padlet.com/df0301/63bus6n4q15skq4/wish/2715302862 During World War one the Japanese Empire asked for special privileges to China, and since other European countries already had certain favors agreed with china, China couldn´t say no to Japan, The demands called for confirmation of Japan’s railway and mining claims in Shandong providence; granting of special concessions in Manchuria ; Sino-Japanese control of the Han-Ye-Ping mining base in central China; access to harbors, bays, and islands along China’s coast; and Japanese control, through advisers, of Chinese financial, political, and police affairs. Yuan’s forced acceptance of all but the last point greatly increased the anti-Japanese feeling in China.]]> 2023-09-21 22:04:59 UTC https://padlet.com/df0301/63bus6n4q15skq4/wish/2715302862 Japan´s entry into WW1 (1914-1918) df0301 https://padlet.com/df0301/63bus6n4q15skq4/wish/2715306366 Japan entered the war in 1914 as a member of the Allies with this it seized the opportunity of Germany to have control of Asia and the Pacific, the major purpose of Japan entering the war was to gain more territory, they didn´t have another necessity they were allied with Great Britain mainly. But also, the Allies didn't fully approve the twenty-one demands on China.]]> 2023-09-21 22:11:52 UTC https://padlet.com/df0301/63bus6n4q15skq4/wish/2715306366 Bibliography df0301 https://padlet.com/df0301/63bus6n4q15skq4/wish/2715306990 Matthew C. Perry | US Naval Officer, Japan Expedition Leader | Britannica

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