Japanese Industrialization Review

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Japan needed to move away from isolationism to industrialize.

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Isolationism

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Sengoku period:

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150-year civil conflict among powerful warlords.

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Japan's 150-year civil conflict era.

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Woodblock printing.

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Tokugawa shogunate's new capital in Kanto, formerly Edo, is now known as:

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Tokyo

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Merchant class in Tokugawa was the lowest due to their perceived lack of productivity.

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Merchants were seen as relatively useless because they didn't produce anything.

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Tokugawa Ieyasu's isolation policies included banning all except:

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Trade with the Dutch and Chinese

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Christianity was outlawed in Japan, leading to severe punishments for believers.

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Burned at the stake

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Treaty of Kanagawa (1854) addressed U.S. demand for:

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Humane treatment of castaways.

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Harris Treaty of 1858 allowed foreigners to reside in Edo and Osaka.

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Foreigners to reside in Edo and Osaka.

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Methods of Meiji era statesmen for modernizing Japan:

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Continued Japanese isolationism to protect modernization from outside influences.