More on Japan.....
Friends,
finally i am back to my good old blog. Hope i am able to keep updating my blog atleast once a month. Ofcourse, i am also thinking of shifting to Yahoo 360 Degrees, since that is an easier way to blog, but can't stop this blog either. Anyways, down to business. In today's post we will see how Japan raced on the path of Modernisation during the Meiji Period.
The Emperor Meiji ascended to the throne in 1868. He was a young emperor, but ably guided by the senior advisors. At the same time he was himself a great visionary. When Japan was forced to open itself to the European Powers in the 1850s, the rulers quickly understood the need to revamp its systems. In 1871, the Emperor sent a group of observers under Iwakura Tomomi, who observed almost the whole of the world for about two years and finally returned back to Japan in 1873. This was the famous Iwakura Mission of Japan. After this, Japan started inviting various scientific, military, industrial experts from the West and rapidly imbibed the western values in its lives. Apart from the Iwakura Mission, Japan introduced the Parliamentary system and "Democracy", although the reality was far from the real sense of the word. You would be surprised to know that by 1892, Japan had already made primary education compulsory and had achieved high literacy rates of as much as 80%. The 1890s also saw the leasing of mining sites to private enterprises, thus introducing market-driven capitalist system in the economy.
Again, Japan drafted and accepted its first constitution in the year 1889, and thus formally started treading the path of modern politics. Of course, the various political functions were carried out on the name of the Emperor, the group of influential veteran advisors was dominant and the giant economic houses also used there pressure to bend the government, but an official setup was laid so that it would finally mature in a proper democracy.
Since the Treaty of Kanghwa in 1876, Japan was showing a lot of interest in "liberating" Korea from Chinese influence. The tension between Japan reached the pinnacle in 1884 and finally resulted in the Sino-Japanese War of 1884-85. Suprisingly, Japan was able to modernise itself considerably within a short span of 30 years and was strong enough to deliver a crushing defeat to China. This marked the emergence of Japanese prowess in Far East. After the Sino-Japanese War, Japan's power was given recognition by all the powers of the West, especially Britain, which immediately concluded a treaty with the Japanese in 1895 which finally led to the Anglo-Japanese Alliance in 1902.
I think i should stop here as this itseld maybe too much of information to all of you. Will definitely see through it that i update the blog more regularly so that you get to read interesting stuff at short intervals.
Regards to all,
P r a s a d....
finally i am back to my good old blog. Hope i am able to keep updating my blog atleast once a month. Ofcourse, i am also thinking of shifting to Yahoo 360 Degrees, since that is an easier way to blog, but can't stop this blog either. Anyways, down to business. In today's post we will see how Japan raced on the path of Modernisation during the Meiji Period.
The Emperor Meiji ascended to the throne in 1868. He was a young emperor, but ably guided by the senior advisors. At the same time he was himself a great visionary. When Japan was forced to open itself to the European Powers in the 1850s, the rulers quickly understood the need to revamp its systems. In 1871, the Emperor sent a group of observers under Iwakura Tomomi, who observed almost the whole of the world for about two years and finally returned back to Japan in 1873. This was the famous Iwakura Mission of Japan. After this, Japan started inviting various scientific, military, industrial experts from the West and rapidly imbibed the western values in its lives. Apart from the Iwakura Mission, Japan introduced the Parliamentary system and "Democracy", although the reality was far from the real sense of the word. You would be surprised to know that by 1892, Japan had already made primary education compulsory and had achieved high literacy rates of as much as 80%. The 1890s also saw the leasing of mining sites to private enterprises, thus introducing market-driven capitalist system in the economy.
Again, Japan drafted and accepted its first constitution in the year 1889, and thus formally started treading the path of modern politics. Of course, the various political functions were carried out on the name of the Emperor, the group of influential veteran advisors was dominant and the giant economic houses also used there pressure to bend the government, but an official setup was laid so that it would finally mature in a proper democracy.
Since the Treaty of Kanghwa in 1876, Japan was showing a lot of interest in "liberating" Korea from Chinese influence. The tension between Japan reached the pinnacle in 1884 and finally resulted in the Sino-Japanese War of 1884-85. Suprisingly, Japan was able to modernise itself considerably within a short span of 30 years and was strong enough to deliver a crushing defeat to China. This marked the emergence of Japanese prowess in Far East. After the Sino-Japanese War, Japan's power was given recognition by all the powers of the West, especially Britain, which immediately concluded a treaty with the Japanese in 1895 which finally led to the Anglo-Japanese Alliance in 1902.
I think i should stop here as this itseld maybe too much of information to all of you. Will definitely see through it that i update the blog more regularly so that you get to read interesting stuff at short intervals.
Regards to all,
P r a s a d....
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