The Meiji Restoration of Japan

Japan name come from the land of the Nikon. Japan people belive that sun is the Goddess. In 1597 the cultures superiority the Japan ban Christianity. Also they found the practicing the Catholicism the following. In the 19th century the opium war between Great Britain and China. Japan have military the world traveled abroad. Japan found the around the world upon fishing boats. In 1868 the restoration of power to the emperor revolutionary. After 1615 a century a century of civil war the powerful Lord. The Tokugawa Shogunate was a kingdom build for the war after 200 year of peace. Under the Confucian hierarchy, become more powerful Japan’s barter economy gave away to a new money economy. American have to come to open the up Japan. They wanted water and coal for whaling ships and trade. They call them black ship for the ominous smoke that billowed from the coal engines. They sent the clear message. If Japanese didn’t open up their country, Perry would open it by force.