Meiji revolution
Data from 1868 to Meiji Revolution that ended the Tokugawa government. Japan, then, is no longer a feudal state and becomes a modern state. What opened Japan to the West.
Meiji revolution
At the end of the 1860s, Japan became one of the most tumultuous periods in its history. This period is known as the Meiji Restoration.
The Meiji Restoration proposed the fall of the Shogunate - that kept the country in a form of government under the dictatorial command and virtually plunged into a feudal system - for opening Japan to the world.
Amazingly, the military ceded his powers without major problems. But with this, the samurai class, which had gained great privileges and one of the most enviable status in society, lost everything they had and many have become errant vagabonds, called Rurouni.
140 years ago was the Kurofuneraikou when a captain named Perry arrived in America with the mission to strengthen the bonds of friendship between the two countries. But at the time the Civil War broke out - the Bakumatsu - and ended the Edo era, which has lasted since the year 1600.
The deadlock arose when the current government power, and Edo Bakufu, did not agree to open the door to negotiations with other countries. Many provinces also refused to accept outsiders on their land. But some of these provinces decided to act on their own, as Choushuuhan which was in Kyoto, and opened fire on the visitors. The action did not please the government sent soldiers to Choushuuhan.A fight occurred and resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people.
The province did not like the retaliation and joined others who were unhappy with the Edo government, which kept Japan stuck to the Shogunate. Then came the union of these provinces a new faction that fought for a new Japan, the Meiji Ishin.
The Meiji Ishin was headed by three people: Shintarou Nakoaka, Ryouma Sakamoto and Toshimichi Ookubo which began to organize the reform movement. Fearing an attack, the Edo government creates a special police in Kyoto to stop the rebels, the Shinsengumi. She was killing anyone who showed a minimum of alignment with revolutionaries. To protect the leaders of the Meiji Ishin recruited swordsmen and formed a new troop, Ishinshishi.
The Bakumatsu, the civil war ended with the Meiji Ishin victory when then came a new government, Meiji, which was based in the city of Edo, known today as Tokyo. But the social and political changes were just beginning.There was much discontent in the air and marginalized social classes as the samurai themselves.
For a long time the new regime authorities pursued the defenders of the old Edo system, while Japan opened its borders to new countries, starting their industrialization.
The Meiji Revolution (1868-1900) marked Japan's entry into the imperialist race of the nineteenth century. To gain supremacy in Asia, Japanese elites followed two paths: the economic domain and the military expansionism.
In the period after the First World War (1914-1918) Japan began to exercise greater power in the world hegemony.
The Nipponese imperialism in Asia far east would be abruptly interrupted by the crisis of 1929. The Japanese economy was dependent on external market es the crisis results in the United States ended up compromising Japan's trade relations with the outside. As a result, Japan's foreign markets were reduced drastically, which installed a serious economic and social crisis.
At the end of the 1930s, Japan presented to the world as a strong and determined nation to maintain its hegemony in Asia. Therefore, the Japanese government considered the Soviet Union to great rival in terms of hegemony in the Far East. In an attempt to neutralize the Soviet power, the Japanese tried to sign a pact with Germany, which became known as the Anti-Comintern Pact, that is, against the Soviet Union and what it represented the communism. This agreement was the axis of the embryo, political alliance that brought together Germany, Italy and Japan in World War II.
Conclusion
With the end of the Tokugawa period, Japan has ceased to be isolated from the world and went on to sign treaties of trade and friendship with various countries, among them Brazil in 1895. The terms of trade reflected on the migration. The Japanese were gradually spreading across several continents in the exercise of different activities. This also led to a marginalization of the Japanese nation, by the very nations that sought the opening of Japan, a classic example is the exchange of representative of that country on the screens of American films, Japanese samurai hero by stupid and drunk Japanese, always in a position to underling without honor or dignity.
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