CHAPTER 20 Section 4: Imperialism in Japan Objectives: >Explain the Japanese pursuit of expansion that began in the late 1800s. >Describe the changes in

CHAPTER 20

Section 4: Imperialism in Japan

Objectives:

>Explain the Japanese pursuit of expansion that began in the late 1800s.

>Describe the changes in Japanese life during rapid modernization.

>Identify the effects of the military on Japan during the 1920s and the 1930s.

Nationalist Movements Around the World

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Imperialism in Japan

Japanese Expansion

How Why

alliance with Great Britain

war with Russia

Treaty of Portsmouth

Bell Ringer 20.4:What were some of the methods and reasons for Japanese expansion?

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Imperialism in JapanDancing the foxtrot. Listening to jazz. Playing

baseball. This was Japan in the 1920s ….

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The Meiji Restoration had changed Japan into a modern industrialand military power.

Now Japan would expand beyond its islands ….

Two reasons for expansion

• New territory would provide raw materials for its factories and markets for its products.

• It would show the West just how much Japan had progressed.

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Korea and Manchuria

Japan wanted Korea …

The Japanese also wantedManchuria but Russia stood inthe way …

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1902 ~ Anglo-Japanese Alliance

…what would bring GB intoan alliance with Japan?

The threat of Russian expansion.

Japan is now playing with theBIG DOGS!

Russia is pressured to withdraw ….And refuses to answer Japan’s demands.

Political Cartoon


Japan to the Great Bear, Chicago Tribune, January 6, 1904

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Imperialism in JapanRusso-Japanese War 1904

• Feb 1904 – Japan attacks Port Arthur & badly damages the Russian fleet

• Japan overruns Korea and pushes Russia back through Manchuria

• Battle of Muken – heavy losses for both sides; Russia withdraws

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Imperialism in JapanBattle of Tsushima

• All the Russian battleships had been destroyed, 4 of the 8 cruisers, and 7 of the 9 destroyers were sunk, 4,830 Officers and Sailors died, many others wounded or captured. The Japanese lost 3 destroyers and some 699 men.

• All but 3 of the Russian ships that had sailed into Tsushuma Straits were sunk, captured or interned. The 3 limped into Vladisvostok.

Visual Source


President Teddy Rooseveltwas asked to broker thepeace between Russia andJapan.The Portsmouth Treatyended the Russo-JapaneseWar – 5 Sept 1905.

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The treaty eliminated Japan’s competition in Manchuria.It forced the other powers to respect Japan’s strength.When Japan annexed Korea in 1910, none of the otherImperialist powers protested.

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Problems of Modernization

In less than fifty years, Japan went from a feudal agricultural society to one of the world’s leading industrial and military

powers.

This leap created problems for the island nation.

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Increasing Population

• People were living longer.

• cities grew rapidly and land was scarce

• food production could not match growth

• US prohibited immigration

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Economic Trouble

• Did not have many raw materials needed for industries

• Had to import materials• Had to sell goods abroad – but many

countries had passed tariffs to protect their own economies

• The Japanese economy had to expand or collapse!

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Social Tensions ~ Westernization• All this great development had changed

traditional Japanese attitudes.• Industrial workers organized and called for

strikes for better conditions & pay.• Tenant farms demanded lower rents.• Intellectuals argued for democratic reforms.• Young Japanese began to question traditional

values ~ new ideas ~ work roles changed ~ women took jobs!

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Imperialism in JapanGrowing Influence of the Military

• Political leaders could not cope.

• Military began to increase its influence.

• Japanese military were virtually independent of the civilian government.

• Militarism grew in Japan and this began to influence social, economic & political policies.

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The Japanese military believed thatWestern nations could never treatJapan as an equal.

The military insisted on a returnto traditional Japanese values.

They called for a larger army andnavy to support a Japanese“Monroe Doctrine” = Asia for Asians with JAPAN as the controllingpower.

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Keep It Up Russia, Brooklyn Eagle, February 2, 1904

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A Hard Feat with Those Clothes On, Chicago Tribune, February 6, 1904

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CHAPTER 20 Section 4: Imperialism in Japan Objectives: >Explain the Japanese pursuit of expansion that began in the late 1800s. >Describe the changes in