https://padlet.com/melanietinelli/fa0xa7ih30hh en-us 2018-02-27 16:15:12 UTC 2018-02-27 17:00:23 UTC hello@padlet.com melanietinelli https://padlet.com/melanietinelli/fa0xa7ih30hh/wish/235970874 To Save Japan from foreign domination, through Japanese transformation of society, drawing on all things from the modern west that they had to offer.]]> 2018-02-27 16:20:29 UTC https://padlet.com/melanietinelli/fa0xa7ih30hh/wish/235970874 melanietinelli https://padlet.com/melanietinelli/fa0xa7ih30hh/wish/235973416 Internal- civil unrest, poverty in the lower classes, corrupt government, population increase.

External- Uprising from peasants,ignorance to follow rules set by the shognanate, Samuri resented their positions, new rigid hiarchy, open door policy from U.S forced Japan to be more willing to trade freely , commoners now seen as equals.]]> 2018-02-27 16:23:41 UTC https://padlet.com/melanietinelli/fa0xa7ih30hh/wish/235973416 melanietinelli https://padlet.com/melanietinelli/fa0xa7ih30hh/wish/235978637 To the extent he made samuri retire and made commoners equal, trade was broadened, elites found new jobs which made transition more efficent, succesful because combined western elements, Although it was a major loss for women and their rights ]]> 2018-02-27 16:31:11 UTC https://padlet.com/melanietinelli/fa0xa7ih30hh/wish/235978637 melanietinelli https://padlet.com/melanietinelli/fa0xa7ih30hh/wish/235981026 Though initially, the Japanese adamantly refused to maintain communication with most Western countries, they eventually came to the conclusion that it was best. Inside the country, issues such as weak and limited military, substantial amounts of poverty, and exponential population increase, but they sought out a method of reform that seemed apparent; Westernization. Japanese diplomats took the European style military, education, and economy, and mixed it with those of their own.]]> 2018-02-27 16:34:18 UTC https://padlet.com/melanietinelli/fa0xa7ih30hh/wish/235981026 melanietinelli https://padlet.com/melanietinelli/fa0xa7ih30hh/wish/235986583 At first, Japan was skeptical to western ideas. Eventually, Japan became open to western ideas and adopted government features and technology. As they borrowed these western ideas, they altered it into their own way and ideology. ]]> 2018-02-27 16:41:02 UTC https://padlet.com/melanietinelli/fa0xa7ih30hh/wish/235986583 17horellana https://padlet.com/melanietinelli/fa0xa7ih30hh/wish/235986741  Knowledge about the West—its science and technology; its various political and constitutional arrangements; its legal and educational systems; its dances, clothing, and hairstyles—was enthusiastically sought out by official missions to Europe and the United States, by hundreds of students sent to study abroad, and by many ordinary Japanese at home. Western writers were translated into Japanese; for example, Samuel Smiles’s Self-Help, which focused on “achieving success and rising in the world,” sold a million copies. “Civilization and Enlightenment” was the slogan of the time, and both were to be found in the West. ]]> 2018-02-27 16:41:14 UTC https://padlet.com/melanietinelli/fa0xa7ih30hh/wish/235986741 17horellana https://padlet.com/melanietinelli/fa0xa7ih30hh/wish/235990344 2018-02-27 16:45:40 UTC https://padlet.com/melanietinelli/fa0xa7ih30hh/wish/235990344 17horellana https://padlet.com/melanietinelli/fa0xa7ih30hh/wish/235993379 2018-02-27 16:49:15 UTC https://padlet.com/melanietinelli/fa0xa7ih30hh/wish/235993379 melanietinelli https://padlet.com/melanietinelli/fa0xa7ih30hh/wish/235999003 Soon after Japan had caught up with much of Western society, they felt it necessary to assert their newfound power over many of their Eastern counterparts]]> 2018-02-27 16:56:03 UTC https://padlet.com/melanietinelli/fa0xa7ih30hh/wish/235999003