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Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Sunday, June 26, 2016
Friday, June 24, 2016
Thursday, June 23, 2016
The Bakumatsu (Part 6): Choshu Domain
Choshu
Domain violently closed the vital Shimonoseki Strait as a result of the Order to Expel the Barbarians. The Bakufu in Edo, meanwhile, took the
order more cautiously by choosing diplomacy to close the treaty ports. The order resulted to friction between the Sakoku and
the Kaikoku parties in the country.
Explore these shock waves that hit Japan.
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Sunday, June 19, 2016
The Bakumatsu (Part 1): Opening of Japan
After
Perry and the Bakufu signed the Treaty of Kanagawa in March 1854, floodgates
opened to Japan for foreign countries to demand treaties giving Japanese a semi-colonial status. Explore the following events after the Treaty
of Kanagawa and rise in interaction with the so-called foreign
“barbarians.”