Japanese History of Edo period to Meiji Restoration(6/6)

Japan of Edo period(Bakumatsu). After this age, Meiji Restoration occur in japan. It is expressed by movie The Last Samurai.

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Education

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• Japanese
• History
• Edo
• period
• Meiji
• Restoration
• LastSamurai
• Bakumatsu

[0HellBlaze0]

agreed it was just them bullying a smaller nation. something that they havent grown out of yet

[TigerPantsRocks]

@ihateyoujerkoff

Japan is very good at taking a good idea and making them better. That doesn't mean it is stealing. It is just improving a good idea for their own good. The automobile, train, telecommunications, and civil society was vastly improved upon by Japanese minds. Japanese civil life is far more advanced now than even that of the United States. Better educated, no drugs, less crime, more wealthy, and produce better quality goods. Japan beat the west at their own game.

[GingerHistoryMajor]

@quixoticfallcy Generalizations like that won't get you anywhere. America did what it had to in order to maintain an advantage against it's allies and enemies, even if that meant challenging the authority and honor system of Japan and the rest of Asia.

[quixoticfallcy]

Americans are dicks

[lisstina90]

I wish this documentary wouldn't have skipped the part of the bakumatsu and boshin war. Since it says history of Edo period to Meiji restoration, they should have brought up some time with that civil war since the end of the Boshin war opened the new era of Meiji.

[tatianaf1000]

@gre36789

Go to hell

[Frebra6110]

New Total war Stand alone expansion for Shogun 2 total war

"Fall of the Samurai" will be set in this era

[noblesoul88]

Fuck America

[philwelzy]

japan thought they would of lost the war with the west, not because they would not of defeated the Americans but because they thought Britain and Russia would do the same. after the usa killed hundreds of thousands of people in an rebellion in the north of japan the trade agreement was changed, then after WW1 and america claiming all islands in the pacific ocean and all trade routs japan had enough this led to the influenced attack on pearl harbor.

[guibin]

The Japanese merely watched what happened to China after they tried to oppose the west and lost (Opium War against the British). China was colonized and was drained of its power and wealth, so that by the 1900's they were reduced to practically a 3rd world country. By opening trade with the west, Japan was able to modernize and become a world power that would challenge America in the 1940s.

[guibin]

@gre36789

It's rather ironic that you called the Japanese arrogant when all you have to do is look at America's own history of Imperialism, and the attitude we have towards other nations today. (assuming you are an American)