Imperial Japan

By mrichardson301

  • 1800

    1800
    Tokugawa shotunate had ruled the Japanese islands for two hundred years.

  • 1853

    1853
    Commodore Perry arrived in Japan An american fleet of four warships under Commodore.

  • 1858

    1858
    U.S. consul Townsend Harris signed a more detailed treaty. And it called for several new ports to U.S trade and residence.

  • 1863

    1863
    Sat-Cho alliance forced the shotgun to promise to end relations with the West.

  • 1868

    1868
    Janurary of 1868, their armies attacked the shogun's palace in Kyoto and proclaimed that the authority of the emperor had been restored.

  • 1889

    1889
    The country was divided into 75 prefectures. " The number was reduced to 45 in 1889 " and it remains that number today.

  • 1904

    1904
    Japan launched a surprise attack on the Russian naval base at Port Arthur, which Russia had taken from China in 1998.

  • 1905

    1905
    After their defeat, the Russians agreed to a humiliating peace in 1905

  • 1907

    1907
    President Thodore Roosevelt made a "gentleman agreement" with Japan that essentially stopped Japanese immigration to the United States.

  • 1910

    1910
    Japan annexed Korea outright. And mutal suspicion between the two countries was growing.