The history of Japan after the Black Ship Incident is basically the modern history of Japan, which can be roughly divided into the following two periods:

(A) the end of the Meiji era

At the end of the edo shogunate, natural disasters continued, and the Tokugawa era was corrupt, making people miserable. Moreover, the financial difficulties of the shogunate made most of the middle and lower samurai more and more dissatisfied with the shogunate. At the same time, western capitalist powers knocked on the door of Japan, which has not been locked for more than 200 years.

Under the double pressure of internal troubles and foreign invasion, the Japanese gradually realized that only by overthrowing the Tokugawa era and learning from capitalist countries is Japan's way to prosperity. So a vigorous closing movement began. Samoan and Changzhou warriors played an important role in this movement to overthrow the Tokugawa era. 1868 1.3, a defector representing the interests of the bourgeoisie and the emerging landlord class, successfully staged a coup under the leadership of Kubo Junyi, Saigō Takamori and Hiroshi, known as the "three outstanding reformers", forcing Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the Tokugawa shogunate15th generation general, to hand over the political power, and the newly acceded Meiji Emperor promulgated "Wang This is the Meiji Restoration in Japanese history. Japan has since embarked on the capitalist road.

1868 (the second year of Meiji), Emperor Meiji moved the capital to Edo and changed its name to Tokyo. After that, a series of major reforms were carried out in politics, economy, culture, education and diplomacy. Japan's national strength grew stronger, and later defeated Qing beiyang fleet in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 (the so-called "Japanese-Qing War"), and wiped out Russian Pacific Fleet and Baltic Fleet in the Russo-Japanese War (the so-called "Japanese-Qing War"). Japan has become one of the imperialist powers.

(B) Taisho, Showa era

Compared with the historical progress made in Meiji era, Emperor Taishō era is called "the great unfortunate truth". /kloc-during the reign of emperor taishi in 0/5, his political achievements were far less than those of emperor meiji, and he was trapped by encephalopathy all his life. Finally, he was forced to recuperate and was regent by Prince Hirohito.

1926, Hirohito ascended the throne, with the year number "Showa", namely Hirohito. For people in China, South Korea, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, the first 20 years of the Showa era were dark years. At this time, the Japanese government was committed to aggression and expansion. 193 1 year (the 6th year of Showa), the "September 18th Incident" broke out and the Japanese army occupied the northeast of China. 1937 (Showa 12) On July 7, 2007, the Japanese army provoked the Lugouqiao Incident and launched a full-scale war of aggression against China. 65438+ In February 65438+March of the same year, the Japanese invaders occupied Nanjing and launched the "Nanjing Massacre" which lasted for six weeks. About 300,000 Japanese soldiers and civilians died tragically under the butcher's knife of the invaders. 194 1 year (showa 16), the Japanese attacked pearl harbor and the Pacific war broke out. This period not only brought profound disasters to the people in China, Korea, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, but also brought pain and difficulties to the Japanese people. This is the darkest period in the history of Japan and Sino-Japanese relations.

1945 (20th year of Showa) On August15th, the Japanese army surrendered. The U.S. military occupied Japan and changed Japan's autocratic imperial power system into a constitutional monarchy, and the emperor was preserved as a symbol of Japan.

1972 (47th year of Showa) In July, tanaka kakuei became Japanese Prime Minister and began to pursue "multilateral independence" diplomacy. In September of the same year, Tanaka visited China and signed the Sino-Japanese Joint Statement with Premier Zhou Enlai on September 29th, announcing the formal establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Japan. 1978 In August, China and Japan concluded the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Peace and Friendship. Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping was invited to visit Japan and announced the official entry into force of the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Peace and Friendship. Sino-Japanese relations have been normalized since then.

1989 (in the 64th year of Showa, the first year of Heisei), Hirohito fell ill. Crown Prince Akihito acceded to the throne and changed his title to "Heisei".

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