HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 41: Meiji Restoration, Military Elite, State Capitalism
4 Apr 2017
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The race to empire in asia and the pacific. I am willing to admit my pride in this accomplishment for japan. The facts are these: it was not until 1853 that we began to study navigation from the dutch in. Nagasaki; by 1860, the science was sufficiently understood to enable us to sail across the pacific. This means that about seven years after the first sight of a steamship, after only about five years of practice, the japanese people made a trans-pacific crossing without help from foreign experts. I think we can without undue pride boast before the world of this courage and skill. Japan is a small island nation: the region is gaining in geopolitical military (significance) Japan had absolutely no abilities to navigate by sea: by 1900 japan was the first non-western nation, there was a hand full that did not fall under colonial rule under the british,
