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Japan & the USA
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Meiji Restorartion
>1837 &1846.
>First attemps securing trading relations,beaten off japanese ships despite USA sending gun boat diplomacy (two warships).
>After Perry went to Japan USA recived Japan's response .
>1839-42 Opium war (Japan's leaders [the emperor an his court] Tokugawa shogunate were aware of China humiliation).
>After this Japan emerged as a important regional an international power.
>1858 Japan signed the treaty of Amity and commerce with US.
Meiji Restoration (1868)
>Because the treaties , it had to be signed by the emperor's consent
>Early leader:Yoshida Shoin(member of Choshu caln).
>Wanted the old feudal system.
>Greater nation unity.
>Incapable of serving the emperor or expeling the "barbarians".
>Execution 1859.
>Chosu modernized their armies.
>& Led political moves
>Fight 1860's
>Satsuma clan supportes Chosu against the government
>Satsuma-Chosu- clan Victorious.
>January 1868 established a imperial court.
>Named "Tokyo".
