MMW 14 Lecture 16: Japan's Path to Reform

• 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 (1) Japanese were able to use china"s experience as a lesson. Will the mist gathering over china not come down as frost upon japan? (a) Starting around 1844, pressure on japan to open itself up for trade and diplomacy. Upstart imperialist power around the mid-19th century (1) President fillmore"s 1852 letter to the tokugawa shogun of japan (1) Key incentives for u. s. (a) (b) (c) (d) China trade by using pacific and japan as transfer point to replenish supplies. Presenting california as an incentive for the japanese to consider. Proposed that they could sign a short term treaty. Whaling industry was huge in pacific--> japan was seen as important in this industry. Sails into edo bay foreigners weren"t allowed here or anywhere near the capital, only in nagasaki (e) anywhere near the capital, only in nagasaki. Also fired many guns claiming it was a solute.