Japanese Industrialization Review

Japan needed to move away from this in order to embrace industrialization.

• Isolationism

• Flexibilism

• Communism

• Colonialism

The Sengoku period was one in which

• Japan entered into a literary and artistic renaissance that was filled with new works.

• Japan entered into a literary and artistic renaissance that was filled with new works.

• Japan committed itself to an invasion of Korea, resulting in a protracted war with China as well.

• Japan entered into a 150-year period of almost constant civil conflict between powerful warlords.

Japan entered into a 150-year period of almost constant civil conflict between powerful warlords.

• Calligraphy

• Sword making

• Origami

• Woodblock printing

The Tokugawa shogunate built a new capital in the Kanto region, at the fishing village of Edo, the site of the modern city of

• Osaka

• Tokyo

• Edo

• Yokohama

Why was the merchant class the lowest class in Tokugawa?

• Merchants were looked down on because they were not samurai.

• Merchants, as a class, had often been associated with Chinese culture, and were therefore seen as outsiders.

• Merchants were associated with unclean or low work, and therefore "dirty".

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

To isolate Japan from foreign influence, Tokugawa leyasu banned all of the following except

• Trade with the Dutch and Chinese

• Overseas travel

• Owning foreign books

• Direct contact with foreigners

Japan had originally allowed Christian missionaries into the country, but this changed and Christianity was outlawed, with those refusing to disavow their faith being

• Burned at the stake

• Forced to pay more taxes

• Exiled from Japan

• Ritually beheaded by a samurai

The Treaty of Kanagawa, signed at Yokohama in 1854, dealt specifically with the U.S. demand for

• Full access to the Japanese market.

• Withdrawal of Japanese armies from China.

• Humane treatment of castaways.

• Disarmament of all Japanese ports.

The Harris Treaty of 1858 allowed for

• Foreign diplomats to have free run of all of Japan.

• Foreigners to reside in Edo and Osaka.

• The United States to ally with Japan for a potential war against China.

• The extensive import of American goods.

Which of the following does not explain the methods in which the statesmen of the Meiji era chose to create reforms for modernizing Japanese society?

• Statesmen made reforms that continued Japanese isolationism ensuring the modernization of Japan would not be affected by outside influences.

• Statesmen combined Western systems of government, education, and military technology.

• Statesmen made reforms that ensured the power of the emperor's cabinet would not be diluted.

• Statesmen made reforms that ensured the power of the emperor's cabinet would not be diluted.