Rapid Change - Meiji Era Japan

What is the name for the period of extreme and rapid modernization of Japan?

• Isolation

• Edo

• Meiji

What two factors led to Japan's journey to modernity?

• Education

• Monarchy

• Feudal Lords

• Democracy

A country is modernized , when it

• keeps its citizens isolated from other countries

• signs treaties to expand his empire and status in the world

• adapts behaviours, ideas and technologies to the current time

Fukuzawa Yukichi, an influential scholar, believed that _______________ was the key from transfering a country from isolation to industrialization.

• education

• technology

• armies

Fukuzawa Yukichi believed that everyone should be _____________ and not rely on the government.

• patient

• independent

• rich

Why are less taxes (tariffs) on imported goods very helpful to citizens?

• different options for citizens

• fancier products for citizens

• cheaper goods for citizens

Matsukata Masayoshi, the Minister of Finance during Meiji restoration period, improved Japan's economy by

• removing government control, fixing unequal treaties, and creating new taxes

• renegotiating treaties, starting wars, and building schools

• combining industries, selling more exports and training citizens.

Why did Japan need to have a stronger miltary?

• to change unequal employment of its country

• to stop a uprising in its country

• to remove unequal treaties and earn the respect of the west.

To improve its military, the three countries that Japan learned from are ____________

• China,

  France,

  America

• Britain,

  Germany,

  United States.

• Netherlands (Dutch),

  Korea,

  China

The key to improving social status (e.g. from poor to rich). is through the _____________.

• education of citizens

• religion of citizens

• government that rules the citizens