Japan Class Flo

Constitutional Monarchy

• Tokugawa Shogun (prime minister => real power)
• Emperor (god)

Less centralized with regional lords + caste system. CLAIM: samuri slowly breaking down + starting to sell swords

• 1854: the Shogun sign unequal treaty w/ the United States
  • Shogunate moves to westernize
  • Shougun precieved as weak and so there was a rebel
• Sonno Joi — "Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians" => lead by the warlords farest away
• 1868: Meiji Restoration
  • Westernization takes place
  • Sakamoto Reoma
    • On his way to assasinate the Shougun, he was convinced that Westernization is a good solution
    • The rebels becoming convinced, and started hijacking the forces
• The Shougun resigns
• Meiji Emperor takes power, and adopts western philosophy wholesale + renegotiate treaties

Japan became the role model of Westernization