Aim: What was the Meiji Restoration?

Do Now:

1. What is Industrialization?

2. What is Modernization?

3. Why do countries modernize?

4. How do countries Modernize?

Notes:

1. The Meiji Restoration accelerated industrialization in Japan.
2. The Capital was moved from Kyoto to Toyko
3. Industrial growth
   The rapid industrialisation and modernisation of Japan both allowed and required a massive increase in production and infrastructure.
4. Production and Export from Japan increased from 1868 to 1913
   With industrialization came the demand for coal. There was dramatic rise in production of Coal in Japan in the Years from 1875 to 1913
   Coal was needed for two things: steamships and railroads.
   The Size of the Japanese Merchant Fleet in rose in the Years from 1873 to 1913
   Thousands of Miles of Train track were laid in Japan in years from 1872 to 1914
5. The education system was reformed after the French and later after the German system. Among those reforms was the introduction of compulsory education.
6. Military was increase and weapons were produced.