The Rise, Embracing, and Effects of Modernization in Japan

In the mid-nineteenth century, the Tokugawa regime, which had been dominated in Japan for over 200 years, began to feel the internal and external pressures of the modern world, and eventually it became necessary to renew the world order (Yonaoshi, 59). On July 8, 1853, a series of black vessels led by Brige Perry landed from Uraga Port. After isolation for more than two centuries, Japan was released by the army of the West, but they are trying to establish a position to do trade in Japan. Age

Japan reluctantly reluctantly attended modern trade, but once opened up, it used a new method of modern technology development. The opening of Japan to the West has modernized the military and has emerged rapidly as the most powerful Asian forces in the Pacific. At the same time, the status of the Tokugawa shogunate weakened in the process that the US and European countries were put into a modern business relationship and other internal factors, general officers lost power. The Emperor acquired the official control of the country in 1868 in Meiji Restoration. It had a long-term impact on Japanese rule and modernization.

Contemporary Japanese survey provides students with extensive research on political, economic, social and cultural development of Japan from the Tokugawa shogunate period until recently. Topics include the rise and fall of the shogunate, the "openness of the state", the economic and technological development of the Meiji government, the crisis of the Taisho / Showa, the war of Japan and the "miracle of the postwar economy". At the end of the course you will acquire a wide range of knowledge about contemporary Japanese history and can effectively analyze complex questions about contemporary Japanese history and understand the history of modern Japan in the history of the world I will.

In the past 80 years, Japan has emerged as a major power of the world, and it is the greatest miracle in world history. The ancient powerful empire, the major political system of the Middle Ages and modern times, the Spanish Empire, and the British Empire all came for centuries to realize that power. The rise of Japan is always short lived. Just 80 years later, it is one of the few great powers that dominates the destiny of the world. The sudden westernization adopted once changed almost all sectors of Japanese society, including arms, arts, education, etiquette, fashion, health, justice, politics, and language. The Japanese government sent students to pay "foreign consultants" in various fields to observe and understand their customs in the Western countries, and to educate the public in Japan. For example, the justice system and the constitution primarily imitate the Prussian system.