The Meiji Restoration of Japan

The restoration of Japan all started when U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry landed at Japanese soils "bullying" them. By "bullying" Japan, it means that the United States were showing off how good their military was to them. Once the saw all the technological advances and the size of the ships the Americans had when they set sail at Japan, the Japanese became impressed and signed a treaty in which the Japanese opened two ports for the U.S. to trade with them. Japan was in need of reformation since their economy was in a threshold due to their lack of technology from the industrial revolution the West had when they came to trade with Japan. Also during that time the Japanese shogun government collapsed in which lead to the emperor(at that time the emperor was Meiji) to take full control of Japan leading to the Meiji era. With the economy in jeopardy, the Japanese take a look at every industrial aspect the West had, and mimic some of that for Japan's use. This mimic has raised the trend of Japan's economy back to the positive side of the graph. Japan is an archipelago which is a group of small islands close to each other.