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Meiji Restoration
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Russo-Japanese War | War between Russia and Japan over Korea and Manchuria |
| Sino-Japanese War | War between china and Japan over Korea |
| Zaibatsu | Powerful banking and industrial families |
| Meiji | Enlightened rule |
| Shogun | Military leader before the Restoration |
| Treaty of Kanagawa | the shogun agree to open two Japanese ports to American ships |
| Mathew Perry | U.S. Naval officer who forced Japan to open ports |
| Raw Materials | Japan lacked |
| Archipelago | A chain of Islands |
| Samurai | Japan's military elite |
| Bushido | Code of conduct |
| Tokugawa Shogunate | Japan's last ruling family |
| Meiji | Japan's Emperor during it's modernization |
| USA | Helped modernize Japan's military |
| Germany | Country Japan modeled government after |
| Imperialism | Domination over another country with the purpose of exploiting it's resources |