COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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a fear that Japan would be colonized by western nations
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the failure of Japanese expansion
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the Shogun’s conversion to Christianity
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a desire to stay isolated
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Meiji Restoration was prompted in part by the fear Japan’sfear of being colonized by western nations. As industrialization increases in Japan, the demand for natural resources increases. In Japanese feudalism, the Daimyo is similar to the position of a lord in European feudalism.
Detailed explanation-2: -There were many causes for the Meiji Restoration, including rice inflation (samurai paid in rice), a decaying bureaucracy, increasing interactions with foreign technology.
Detailed explanation-3: -The result was the 1868 political transformation known as the Meiji Restoration. Drawing from both Western models and Japanese traditions, the Meiji Restoration allowed Japan to develop into a modern industrial nation-state that rivaled European nations in both military and economic power.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Meiji Restoration of 1868 toppled the long-reigning Tokugawa shoguns of the Edo period and propelled Japan into the modern era. Japan’s Edo period, which lasted from 1603 to 1867, would be the final era of traditional Japanese government, culture and society.
Detailed explanation-5: -In 1868 the Tokugawa shôgun ("great general"), who ruled Japan in the feudal period, lost his power and the emperor was restored to the supreme position. The emperor took the name Meiji ("enlightened rule") as his reign name; this event was known as the Meiji Restoration.