JAPANESE HISTORY
Tokugawa Japan 1600-1878
2 Collapse of Tokugawa Shogunate
3 Downfall of Tokugawa Shogunate
Meiji Japan 1878-1912
> 2 Charter Oath
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Charter Oath (April 1868)
- show the westerns that Japan was willing to learn / not anti-foreign
- declared by the oligarchs as the new direction / policy of the Meiji government
- to pacify the discontent of those samurai who had participated in Meiji Restoration but without active share in the new government
1. Assemblies shall be called & government policies would be decided by public discussion
- to pacify the discontents from samurai of Tosa & Hizen
2. All classes shall unite in carrying out the administration of the country
- to seek national support
3. Person of all classes shall be allowed to realize their ambitions
- to appease the Japanese that the administration was opened to talent
4. abolition of feudalism (signified the end of Tokugawa Shogunate)
5. Knowledge shall be sought throughout the world
- modernization
- co-operate & friendly toward the west
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