MMW 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Meiji Restoration, Tokyo Bay, Tokugawa Shogunate

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 14
• Professor: Edmond Chang

Document Summary

If an enemy dictates terms in one"s own capital, one"s country is disgraced . Will the mist gathering over china not come down as frost upon japan? . Starting around 1844, beginning to knock on japan"s door. Western interests start pressuring japan to open for trade. Japan had been more closed off to trade with the outside world than china. China as a blueprint for dealing with japan. Naval power had destroyed china, so they thought the same. Saw what happened to japan at a safe distance and was determined to not let it would work for japan happen to them. Us still an upstart imperialist power around the mid 19th c. Since everyone else was busy in china, they thought it would be a good opportunity to get a hold in east asia and demonstrate its power. The us visit to japan comes right after the acquisition of ca.