The Meiji Restoration 🇯🇵 History of Japan's Rapid Modernization
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
- The Meiji Restoration will be explored in this episode, Japan's Rapid Modernization after 214 years of Sakoku. How did this effect Japanese History?
➡️ The Meiji Restoration occurred after 214 years of Sakoku and ushered in Japan's Rapid Modernization. Japan was opened up by Commodore Matthew C Perry ushering in a new Meiji Era. The Meiji Restoration was the rapid modernization of Tokugawa Japan into the modern Era.
➡️ The Tokugawa Shogunate system would not survive the Bakumatsu period and would fall as a result of the Boshin war. The Samurai would make a last stand during the Satsuma Rebellion. The incredible industrialization of Japan under Emperor Meiji would change all aspects of Japan and would lead to the creation of the Empire of Japan.
To Learn more about Japan’s history and how Commodore Matthew C Perry eventually was the one to open Japan up and how Japan viewed the world during its Sakoku period 🇯🇵 click here:
"The Many Attempts at Opening up Sakoku Japan by Other Nations 🇯🇵 History of Japan"
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TimeStamps
0:00 Intro
2:22 Bakumatsu Period and Boshin War
9:30 Political Change and establishment of new government
16:50 Education and religion reform
22:00 Industrialization
26:00 Military reforms
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Hello there! What did you find the most interesting in this episode? Let us know in the comments below!
Nothing entirely related to this episode, what makes you so interested in the Asia Pacific history? Coz most just keen in European history.
@@macrick As sad as it might sound, I probably became interested in Japan at a young age from anime and then I began to like history,. Two and two came together and I ended up taking some Japanese history courses. From there fell into the Pacific War and the history of China + other Asian countries.
thanks for helping with my history class, My history teacher right now doesn't really teach he just gives us work and an online history textbook a then he just lets us do our own thing.
LOL that sounds like a particular university class I took involving Japanese history ;P
This channel is an absolute hidden gem
Thank you so much, its tough being a small channel haha
Really liking the channel but the set needs some work man. Center yourself in the screen and reduce the prop clutter or display it better if you can. Also find a way to get rid of that glare on the map haha
Nice to have a channel covering the pacific tho, keep it up man :)
The Meiji restoration is very fascinating. Incredible how quickly they modernized and became a military world power in such a very short time.
Your channel deserves more subscribers and views. Great work!
Hi! I just want to say that i loved the video, it helped me a lot. I am a brazilian student and this part of the japanese history is actually really important in some tests that i'll be taking here for entering a university. I just had one class covering the Meiji Era (and not this good) in my geopolitics class.
So, forgive my english and thanks ;)
Thank you so much for watching =)!
Great job mate
Really enjoying this channel.
What an amazing and interesting cover. Definitely unmatched on youtube. Keep up the good work!!
I really love the video. It reminds me some of the history I learned before. You must take a long time to gather the information. I would like to see a video about Sakamoto Ryoma.
I've read quite a bit about this era (as well as the period covered in your earlier episodes on the Opium Wars); and I think your mini-documentaries are excellent.
It's hard to find any documentaries by BBC or other large production companies that aren't utterly spoilt by the impulse to heavily overlay a contemporary political slant - your own material is detailed, accurate and balanced, without axe-grinding. Exceptional work, literally.
Minor points: I love your set - very cute and entertaining; and I love your parrot. Occasional mispronunciations don't bother me, especially as your confidence and skill as a presenter has improved so much in just a few episodes.
Ignore the 'haters' - great work. I've added you to my favourites - sharing with FB friends :)
Dope video!
Thank you!
How long do these videos take to produce? I’m really impressed with how much you cover. The history feels very thorough and it’s engaging even when I get a bit lost because it’s so much information on a topic I’m unfamiliar with. But I think you’re doing a great service producing these videos. Seriously, great work, keep it up!
Not to give unsolicited advice, only because I think this channel deserves to be seen by more people, I’m going to echo another commenter that the set could be improved upon. I’ve worked a lot on my set for my own channel and so I know the various challenges you’re facing. Positioning the light without reflecting it off the poster behind you for example. If you would like a couple tips feel free to reach out.
Thank you so much! It takes me quite long to create the content, mostly because I do not have a background in Chinese History. Started this entire project with a background in Japanese history, but when I began to write I realized I really wanted to capture the 19th century for a solid background in why nations like China and Japan found themselves at war so often. To give a rough idea, at this point now that I have read 20+ books on China/Japan history 1800-1900, I can now pop an episode out every two weeks haha. I made most of the content quite long ago, right now I am working on the Satsuma Rebellion.
As for the set, god we know haha. Its a laundry room by the way! Someone else here mentioned the glare and I am going to find something to do, the real issue is the map in the back is really glossy. Thanks a lot for the commentary, its not easy being a small History channel, the big channels eat up so many of the views :P!
@@ThePacificWarChannel Ok that makes, I was curious about your background. I figured you must have had extensive knowledge before you started this. But I understand branching out of your immediate wheelhouse is always going to be a big project. And of course weaving it into your script is a whole other thing.
I would say you’ve done a pretty good job considering you’re in a laundry room! A good guideline is to keep 5 feet between you and the background. That alone often solves for glare and hard shadows. But I’ll stop. Again, keep up the great work!
In regards to the Japanese finding their inspiration for government in prussia there is a German saying that goes something like this: "normally a country has a military in prussia the military has a country" (this saying comes from the time of the 7 year war where prussia rose from a minor kingdom to an European superpower under the leadership of Friedrich the great.
some books you recommend regarding this topic? It would be nice if you include some biography in the description.
Bibliography is at ending (34:15~), but you are right I should also add it to descriptions!
-Jansen, Marius B. 2000. The making of modern Japan. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
-Vogel, Ezra F. 2019. China and Japan: facing history.
-Bix, Herbert P. 2001. Hirohito and the making of modern Japan. New York, NY: Perennial.
@@ThePacificWarChannel awesome. Thanks, I just discovered your channel, very interesting videos. Love them. Thanks for sharing them!
@@ThePacificWarChannel Do you use any primary sources in your research, and if not do you know of any good ones to look at.
@@masterdclone2172 it always dependa on subject matter. For a lot of these pre-WW2 episode its secondary mostly (though Opium wars I did have some primary). Right now I also write for the Pacific War series at KnG, a lot of that involves primary documents, for example using: history.army.mil/ , for specific Unit history etc.
Good work! (By the way, though this is not just you but other people too, the sound of "志士/shishi" is better pronounced without "h." Japanese romaji happens to have that particular spelling, but in reality it is more [s] than [sh] of English.)
He can't even pronounce simple MEIJI and you're worried about this? Lol this guy is a joke mayjay?
Mori insulting li is a funny thing to learn 😂
00:24 which cinema (movie) or documentary it is. Can you kindly tell the name
《捍卫者/姚子青(DEFENDERS)》淞沪会战宝山战役电影
This is a link to the full video with English Sub:
ua-cam.com/video/RZRd-Pcvikw/v-deo.html
@@ThePacificWarChannel ohh thank you sir, so kind of you
loved this... this and the boshin war era are so interesting.... would have been cool if you talked a bit about the joshitai and the onna bugeisha who fought in both conflicts (it was the women of aizu who fought in the boshin war but the women of satsuma fought in the meji restoration).
Haha its funny you mention it cause I am researching it at the moment for a special episode ;). I have a very old episode on this channel on "Spartan Women" and I was going to do a similar piece on Nakano Takeko and the The Jōshitai
@@ThePacificWarChannel yes i loved your spartan women video but i REALLY enjoyed your video about the russian women soldiers of ww2 - in my opinion the best video about female combtants in ww2 on youtube.
I think your channel is fab 🥰
@@NicoleUK92 Thank you it means a lot to me. When I was still "NBS History" I was going to do more pieces on womens history, but one thing led to another and I became a channel dedicated to the pacific war (or more like the history of Asia 1800->). I have a few ideas though going forward, like I want to do a piece of the Dowager Empress Cixi.
@@ThePacificWarChannel your so welcome :)
Its such an interesting time in history though so i dont blame you for focusing on this timeframe. there was so much happening! and yes some of the empresses were extremely fascinating so id be very interested to see what you come up with...
me and alot of other people really enjoy your channel - you deserve WAY more subscribers and views your videos are so good 👌
My ancester is upper class samurai and part of Daimyo's family.
Meiji Restoration was farce. I love Edo period's Japan.
So I wanted to ask a few questions about the Meiji Restoration, and figured this video's comment section was the best place to do it.
1. Did the cost of industrialization during this era motivate Japan to fight wars overseas in hopes of capturing territory? After all, it's not trivial for a nation to industrialize, like you said it was quite bad for the poorer sections of society who were forced to work on long and stringent schedules with little pay.
2. Had Japan not decided to invest into capturing territory overseas during various wars, would it have been better off? I know that Japan was suffering economically after the first World War, which partly led to it conquering Manchuria and then attempting to conquer China.
1. The industrial revolution of Japan saw multiple economic problems and there was a variety of ways the Genro tried to tackle the issue. One of the biggest problems Japan ran into was with so much advancement came a huge population boom and they could not support it thus -> 2) They sought to expand their territory/ form colonies to acquire food, resources and land. When they took Manchuria it became as one of my professors called it "the drug that killed Japan". The territories it took early on in the Pacific were not very significant in comparison to Manchuria or its colonial hold over Korea.
In the end Japan performed miracles with its Meiji restoration, but everything has a cost and Japan was too worried with internal issues to stop itself from performing external issues.
@@ThePacificWarChannel Huh, so Japan actually suffered from having a sudden population boom? That's interesting, and not something I would have expected from an industrialization program. Now I'm even more curious about the Meiji era.
@@devofanj9452 During the Meiji restoration there was a ton of riots/protests by workers. One of the biggest ones was the 1918 rice riots, but there was quite a few inflation crisis's. For a specific look at the economic issues I suggest looking up "Matsukata Deflation" that's where a lot of the problems began.
@@ThePacificWarChannel Thanks, will definitely take a look at those someday.
Where did they get the teachers from when emperor meiji introduced western type schools
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Can you please tell me the source of the data of the industrialisation?
I did not go into any real fine detail on the numbers to be honest, it was too much information for an episode, but for most sources its: The Making of Modern Japan: Jansen, Marius B and China and Japan: Facing History: Vogel, Ezra F.
@@ThePacificWarChannel Thanks very much
Didn't get very far, but if your gonna do a section on a major part of Japanese history, shouldn't you get the pronunciation correct? Meiji isn't "May-jay," its MAyG. G as in G. I. Joe.
I suck at pronouncing lol, if you watch it long enough I bounce back from Mei"jay" to Mei "g"i quite a few times. I don't know why I subconsciously keep doing that, but working on my Japanese pronunciation!
Ii is not "Li". It's 2 "i"s XD They were a rather famous clan. Ii Naomasa kicked a lot of arse at Sekigahara.
I apologize, I am actually getting language coaching now for both Mandarin/Japanese terms from a very helpful fan....who is very frustrated with my miss pronunciations XD. Will do better!
I've never heard Meiji said like "Mejey" before. Why are you doing that? You don't really have the standing to invent some sort of new way of saying Meiji wrong that breaks the rules of pronunciation here and there. It's obviously said like Meyji, there's no need to put the y on the end when the I is there to make a diphthong with the first vowel, not the second.
Not really a criticism but your pronunciation of Edo and Meiji is killing me bruh
My bad, I miss pronounce a lot of things, working on it!
Good to see the African Grey back on its perch!
How could you possibly talk coherency when you pronounce it MAYJAY??? WTF???