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Japan Chapter 6

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Japan

Chapter 6

Quick change to avoid foreign control.

Political System

  • Constitutional Government
  • Emperor the leader
  • Domains to prefectures
  • German-style cabinet/parliment
  • Abolished feudalism

Economic System

  • Hobbled by treaties
  • Government influence businesses became private.
  • Zaibatsu - financial clubs controlling swaths of companies
  • Move to a capitalistic economy

Social Change

  • Individuals free to choose
  • Daimyo absorbed into society.
  • Samurai allowed to diversify.
  • Farmers owned land
  • Standardized curriculum

Cultural Change

  • Shintoism, then Buddhism
  • Able to critique government
  • Adoption of western ideals criticized.

Not so Smooth

  • Satsuma Rebellion