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Period: 300 to
Feudal Japan
Feudal Japan -
Isolation
Japan went into a period of isolation from the world -
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Tokugawa shoguns
This period saw growing urbanization, the spread of popular education and the rise of the merchant class. -
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Isolation
The Japanese broke ties with all foreigners for the next two hundred years -
Japan closes the doors on the west
Japan dosn't let outsiders into their country. -
Peace!
Peace was finally established by the 17th century. -
Rank of the Warrior
Even after peace was established, they samurai would still wear their swords as a sign of rank. -
Trade
United States commodore Matthew Perry enters Japan. He demands that Japan trade with the U.S. -
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Imperial Japan
constitutional policy with the emperor as reigning monarch; industrialization, urbanization, and an increasingly mobile society -
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Meiji period
; rapid modernization and dramatic change of political, social, and economic institutions; meeting the challenge of the West by following its model. -
Invasion
Japan takes over the Korean peninsula and rules it for 35 years, until 1945. -
World War 1
Japan declarws war on Germany starting World War 1 -
Presents Contemporary
Democratic reform under Allied occupation; stable political democracy, high economic growth in the sixties and seventies followed by political instability and recession in the early nineties.