Japan modernized during the Meiji Restoration

Japan’s ModernizationJapan studied the rise of the West and concluded that two things had given the West dominance:

Industry creates superior military (weapons, etc.)

Superior military builds empire

(new land).

Empire provides resources that feed industry.

INDUSTRY: Factory in Meiji Japan

INDUSTRY:Military Advancements of the Meiji Period

Japan’s Modernization

1) Industry

2) Empire:• Sino-Japanese War (1894)

• Russo-Japanese War (1904-5)

• annexation of Korea (1910)

EMPIRE: Modernizing the Military

Similarities: Pre-war Germany & Pre-war Japan

Similarities: Pre-war Germany & Pre-war Japan