ASNS 1150 Lecture Notes - Tenpō Famine, Meiji Restoration, Young Samurai
10 Mar 2014
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Samurais who threw the shogun said they were doing it in the name of the emperor. 1868: europe was projecting it"s military rights abroad. Young samurai would go on a reform, changing the face of japan (didn"t want to fall to the power of the europeans. Abolished the social order - wanted everyone under the emperor to be the same level of citizenship. Toured the world - explore/learn from the west. Built conscripts - draft system (not just samurai but also peasants) Russo-japanese war (1904-1905) --> defeated a european nation - asian hegemon - showed the japanese power. Stagnation: more severe during the early 19th century. Young samurai were growing upset at the fat that they could not find jobs. Believed men of talent should be the ones to take charge (neo-confucianism) Found the older generations in current positions as incompetent. Foreign pressures: chronology: 1780s - 1800s: russians in the north.
