Tokugawa to Meiji
The Bad Situation
The Meiji Restoration was the efforts of the Tokugawa to resist foreign powers. After many defeats
Meiji Reforms
- An end to military government in Japan
- "Rich Country, Strong Army"
- Looked into foreign influences , in efforts to revise past unequal treaties
- Education for study abroad students and scholars
- Japan was in turmoil
- Agriculture was declining, they had harsh taxes, and economic hardship
- Samurai and Daimyo: debt
- Lower class protest and rebellion
- Mizuno Tadakuni
- He ended ineffective, driven from office
- British, French, and U.S.
- Did not accept them
- U.S. naval squadron
- Lost control
The Meiji Restoration was the efforts of the Tokugawa to resist foreign powers. After many defeats
Meiji Reforms
- An end to military government in Japan
- "Rich Country, Strong Army"
- Looked into foreign influences , in efforts to revise past unequal treaties
- Education for study abroad students and scholars
Fukuwaza Yukichi
A man that studied abroad, learned english, traveled to Europe and made wrote about the foreign lands he ventured to. He loved the constitutional government and modern educational system he saw in the U.S.
A man that studied abroad, learned english, traveled to Europe and made wrote about the foreign lands he ventured to. He loved the constitutional government and modern educational system he saw in the U.S.
Ito Hirobumi
He helped draft the constitution for Japan after seeing the German constitution. Hiro studied Constitutions and administrative systems.
He helped draft the constitution for Japan after seeing the German constitution. Hiro studied Constitutions and administrative systems.
Abolition of the Feudal Order
- Centralize political power
- Put in metropolitan districts
- Established new governors
- Daimyo and Samurai lost their power and rights
- Samurai rose in rebellion but the new strong army cut them off
Revamping the Tax System (new and improved)
- Secured financials in he regime, changed (fixed) the tax system
- Grain to money
Constitutional Government
- Pressures for a representative government and a constitution
- Constitution = strength and unity
- The emperors gift to his people
- Constitutional Monarchy with a legislature called the Diet
- House of nobel and an elected lower house
- Limited the power of the Diet
- But still, the emperor had most power, people could influence him but not rule over him.
- Individual rights could be limited in the "interests of the state"
- Centralize political power
- Put in metropolitan districts
- Established new governors
- Daimyo and Samurai lost their power and rights
- Samurai rose in rebellion but the new strong army cut them off
Revamping the Tax System (new and improved)
- Secured financials in he regime, changed (fixed) the tax system
- Grain to money
Constitutional Government
- Pressures for a representative government and a constitution
- Constitution = strength and unity
- The emperors gift to his people
- Constitutional Monarchy with a legislature called the Diet
- House of nobel and an elected lower house
- Limited the power of the Diet
- But still, the emperor had most power, people could influence him but not rule over him.
- Individual rights could be limited in the "interests of the state"