Pacific War Podcast 🎙️The Meiji Restoration 🇯🇵 the Rapid Modernization of Japan
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- This Pacific War podcast will explain the Meiji Restoration which was the rapid modernization of Japan.
➡️ The Meiji Restoration occurred and the rapid modernization of Japan after 214 years of Sakoku. Japan was opened up by Commodore Matthew C Perry ushering in a new Meiji Era. Tokugawa Japan after an isolationist period known as "Sakoku" underwent a Rapid Modernization.
➡️ The Tokugawa Shogunate system would not survive the Meiji Restoration (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:
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Hey we apologize for the audio quality in this episode, fixed the issue for the next "zoom" podcasts! Tell us what you thought of the discussion in the comments below!
36:30 Are you kidding? The Meiji restoration and the industrialisation of Japan are amazingly interesting to me. Thanks for discussing this era.
Love the podcast as a companion to each episode!
This is great, I’m going to be teaching this in a few months so the timing is perfect
Thank you so much, it's such a fascinating subject and we barely scratched the surface =)
I’d like to see some discussion on the impact of the Anglo Japanese alliance
The main reason I cut the Meiji restoration episode at 1889 was because of subjects like that. I feel the time period of 1890-1914 is crucial to understanding how the Empire of Japan developed. The Anglo-Japanese alliance is going to be largely talked about when I get into the First-Sino Japanese War and WW1 in Asia =).
A comment I posted on a previous podcast didn't post properly. I will try again. I would like to see you do an episode on the resistance in the Philippines to the Japanese occupation (1942-5). I can recommend two books and one scholarly study well worth reading. All concern the resistance on Mindanao by the groups aligned with Col. Wendell Fertig.
Man im hooked
33:28 So it’s like Chaebol in South Korea
22:13 Yeah, what an unfortunate “accident”.
It wasn’t all that impressive. The Meiji restoration inside and outside Japan is shrouded in myth and false perceptions. Namely, most non-Japanese who are vaguely familiar with the topic believe that Japan “rapidly industrialized” during this period, probably based on stereotypes of postwar Japan. Actually, Japan’s growth rate before WW2 was only 1/3 of its growth rate after the war. By the end of the Meiji era, Japan was still a poor, agrarian country. French Indochina, British Singapore/Burma, Dutch Indonesia, Ottoman Empire, Qing China and Persia all had higher GDP per capita than Japan.
Japan’s efforts also were not unique. Virtually every “uncivilized” power, from Egypt to China, had tried to modernize. Not were the Japanese more successful in economic and military modernization. At the time of the Sino-Japanese war, Japan had zero battleships. China had 2.
Japan was not that impressive economically, nor exceptional in its modernization efforts. Why, then, were they the lone success story?
Because Japan’s soldiers, sailors, and officers in this period were excellent. By 1905, the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy arguably had the highest quality of personnel and command in the world, and the most advanced military methods. Japan was the second country, after Great Britain) to widely adopt wireless telegraphy, the second (after the US) to adopt naval war games, the first to use indirect artillery fire on a large scale, the first to develop a semblance of “infiltration tactics” on a large scale, the first to use offensive minelaying, the first to use incendiary naval rounds, the first country to build a semi-dreadnaught, and the first (and so far only) country to destroy an enemy fleet with land artillery. In training, Japanese soldiers had the most realistic program in the world, involving long forced marches and bayonet practice with almost no formation drill. Officers copied the German method of war gaming while sleep deprived.
Against both China and Russia, the Japanese were badly outnumbered in land and sea. Japan, as I mentioned, was still a poor country. Worse, it had one of the worlds lowest effective tax rates - about 4%. The Japanese public in Meiji times was very tax resistant. Despite this disadvantage, the IJA and IJN completely outclassed their enemies qualitatively. They weren’t just good by “uncivilized” standards - they were excellent by European standards.
This was where Japan was different than Persia, the Ottomans, Egypt, and China. All countries adopted the trappings and the technology of a Westernized army. Only Japan matched that with personnel quality.