Dbq Japanese Imperialism

During 1868, Japan was facing the Meiji Restoration and was being impacted by western influences and imperialism. As Japan, didn’t agree on how the influences were affecting countries around, Japan created many reforms. A few of the reforms that Japan was using were militarism, industrialization, and economic changes. Japan had a plan to help support their country to avoid the influences, but as time went on the reforms started not to work, and the changes that were being made began to be western influences. There are reasons that the reforms didn’t stop the influences or the process of entering Imperialism. As well why Japan crave and started to change their ways by the western influences.
Japan practices militarism, as one of the reforms
Well, one of the first points Japan did for this reform was to compel all efforts to build a strong army. (Doc 9) Their strong army policy and the wars were the motivation for creating and growing the arsenals and shipyards. Arsenals are a gathering of the weapons and military equipment that is stockpiled by a country. Shipyards are where iron boats, steamboats are built and stored until they are needed. Which acts as a highly effective focus also, can lead to the distribution of western skills and technology. (Doc 9) The strong army policy also was the requested necessary for ensuring the survival and assistance for the development of the private firms in Japan that was in the shipbuilding, machinery, and machine tools industries, that often at times can be financially unbalanced. (DOC 9) Japanese saw the fate China was having during this period, which made the Japanese nervous. So, the leaders of the government decided to tighten and expand the military abilities. (DOC
Because of the changes to the demand, the labor force in Japan began to become active in the industries. When they thought the retail and minor business were under different control, several of the new firms were starting to be under the supervision of the government. The government later changed these new companies into banking, mining, shipbuilding, and textiles. With the modification of the industrialization, it started to effect was positions of the workers. Japan was trying to obtain students and train them for jobs that they will work for, for their entire lifetime. That was another influence Japan adopted because of the western influences. Former and current workers worked as an individual worker, these workers had to beyond flexible, and accomplish their jobs. With the western influences, numerous of the oldest skills workers had started to become obsolete, because the new skill set was starting to be introduced. Therefore, with the new skill set and the flexible work set, Japan wanted additional workers that would adopt the new technology ways. (Do7) As the same with militarism, Japan started to realize that industrialization was just slowing the process of