Korea Under Japanese Rule
Name: Hyeongeun Choi
Student ID: 2600220448-6
Information Science and Engineering
Japanese Colonial Period
일제강점기
1910~1945
Stratocracy 1910~1919
무단정치
Stratocracy
무단통치
- Teacher Soldier
- Learn Japanese
- Learn Japan’s history
Land Survey Project
토지조사사업
- Deprive Korean land
and rice
- Managed to keep
Korea’s economy
Independence Movement
Day
1919.3.1
Culture Governance
Period
National Liberation Day
Japanese Imperialism
on China
Name: HAMID Baizid Al
Student ID: 26002204559
Information Science and Engineering
Traditional Chinese Culture
►Pride for culture
►Ethnocentrism
►Foreigners=Barbarians
►Uniform Culture
China meets the West
► China was self-sufficient
Healthy agricultural economy- quick growing rice
17-18th century- received maize, sweet potatoes
and peanuts (Columbian Exchange)
Mining of salt, tin, silver and iron
Silk, high-quality cotton and fine porcelain
► 1793: Qing Emperor receives Ambassador from
England
Emperor not impressed with his gifts-clocks,
globes, instruments, hot air balloons
Chinese ports through 1835
►One port- Guangzhou
►Favorable balance of trade
►Until…. British smuggled in
Opium
12 million Chinese became
addicted
Opium War-
1839
► China vs Britain
► China’s ships were
outdated
► British had steam powered
gun boats
► China will be divided into
“Spheres of Influence”
Treaty of Nanjing
1842
► “unequal treaty”
► Extraterritoriality
►British live under
their own laws and
courts
► Great Britain
receives Hong Kong
► China is carved into
“spheres of
influence”
Rebellions against European
Imperialism in China
► Taiping (“Great Peace”) Rebellion (1850-
1864)
► Leader wanted to create a China with vast
wealth with no one living in poverty
► Began recruiting followers in the 1830’s
► Organized a peasant army of 1 million
► Took control of SE China
► 1853 took control of Nanjing and declared it
the capital
The Europeans take action…
► British,French and Qing launched
attacks against the “rebels”
► At least 20 million dead- maybe 40
million
1899 Open Door Policy
► All nations should have equal trading
rights regardless of spheres of
influence.
Prevented further expansion of spheres of
influence
Did nothing to restore Chinese
sovereignty (The right of a country to
govern itself without interference.)
Chinese Nationalism
continues…
► Boxer Rebellion (1900)
► Poor peasants and workers resent
foreigners
► Formed a secret society (Society of the
Righteous and Harmonious Fists)- soon
became known as the Boxers
► Led a campaign against the Qing
Empress and the foreigners
Boxer Rebellion- 1900
► “Death to the Foreign Devils”
► Empress did not help the Boxers (But said
she supported them)
► Multinational force launched an attack
against the Boxers
► Quickly defeated the Boxers
End Result of the Taiping and
the Boxer Rebellions
►Attempt to end foreign
domination failed due to
military weakness
►A strong sense of nationalism
emerged in China
Japan
► Whatwill the Japanese do when the
Europeans come knocking on their
doors?
July 14, 1853 Commodore Mathew Perry, arrived
in Tokyo Bay by steam ships
Matthew Perry’s Ship
What Did the U. S. Want??
Coaling
stations.
More trading
partners.
A haven for
ship-wrecked
sailors.
1854- Treaty of Kanagawa was signed
opening 2 Japanese ports and an Am.
Consulate was opened
Japan Learns a Lesson!
In 1862, just before the start of the
Meiji period, Tokugawa sent officials
and scholars to China to study the
situation there. A Japanese recorded
in his diary from Shanghai…
The Chinese have become servants
to the foreigners. Sovereignty may
belong to China but in fact it's no
more than a colony of Great Britain
and France.
What did the
Japanese do?
MEIJI
Restoration
M—Modernization
E—Ends
I—Isolation
J—Japan Joins
I—Imperialist Nations
Meiji Restoration
Meiji Restoration
► 1868-1912
Shogun failed to prevent foreign
interference—the Tokugawa could
not resist
1868-samurai forces remove
shogun from power & restored
emperor’s rule—Meiji Restoration
► 15 year old, Matshuhito becomes
Emperor.
Rapid modernization=removal of
Western powers
The Shogunate Is
Overthrown!
The last
Shogun.
Tokugawa
Yoshinobu.
The Emperor Is “Restored”
to Power
MEIJI “Enlightened Rule”
Modernization
by
“Selective
Borrowing”
Popular board
game.
Start by leaving
Japan & studying
in
various Western
capitals.
End by returning to
Japan and
becoming a
Everything Western Was
Fashionable!
Japanese soldiers with their wives.
Westernize
Abolition Land the School
of the Redistribution System
feudal system (Fr. & Ger.)
Modern
Meiji
Banking Modernize
System the Army
(Prussian)
Refor
Written
Constitution
(Germans)
ms Build a
Modern Navy
(British)
Human Rights Emperor
& Religious Worship
Freedom Intensified
The Russo-Japanese War:
1904-1905
The Battle of Tsushima:
The results startled the world!
President Ted Roosevelt
Mediates the Peace
The Treaty of Portsmouth, NH ended
the Russo-Japanese War.
Japan Annexes Korea
Japan Is a Player in China
But Japanese Power Would
Grow . . .
By the end of Meiji in 1912
Japan is a Global Power!
► centralized government
► transportation and communication systems
► educated population
► industrialized with latest technology
► a powerful army and navy
► Imperial possessions
