Agenda 11-20

• BW – Pick up Notes sheet, answer the BW

question
• CW 1 – Video notes
• CW 2 – Imperialism in Japan notes
• HW – Compare imperialism in Japan and one
other place in the world (India, Africa or China)
• Quote of the Day “Be faithful in small things
because it is in them that your strength lies.” -
Mother Teresa
EQ: How was Japan’s
imperialist experience
unique?
• In 1854, Commodore Matthew Perry
and four U.S. warships arrived in
previously isolated Japan.

 Commodore Matthew Perry

• Perry forced open Japan, and started
trade between Japan and the West,
ending Japanese isolation.
• In response, the Japanese restored
Emperor Meiji to power, bringing
change to Japan.

Overthrown Tokugawa shogunate

Emperor Meiji 
• This period was called the Meiji
Restoration, which was a movement
toward modernization.
• Prompted in part because Japan feared
being colonized by the West.
• To modernize Japan, leaders of the
Meiji government studied Western
institutions and technology.
• The Meiji Restoration resulted in the
modernization of industry and military,
which led to the rise of Japan as an
imperialistic nation.