What were the main mid-term causes? - Asia and the Pacific: Long- Term causes of - Japanese Grievances that inspired Revenge 한

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What were the basic terms of the 'unequal treaties' imposed on Japan in the mid 1800s?

  1. Creation of Treaty Ports (Little Englands or Americas serviced by Japanese servants)
  2. Extraterritoriality
  3. Tariff restrictions
  4. most-favoured nation clause (whatever japan gave to one power they had to give to all others)

What was the chief foreign policy aim in Japan between 1870-1900?

  1. 1868 the Meiji Restoration restored imperial rule to the Emperor Meiji;
  2. He espoused the new  aims of Japan in the 'Charter Oath': (五箇条の御誓文):
  3. This basically introduced the overarching policy of learning from the west in order to defend Japan from the west; otherwise know as 'Self-strengthening":
  4. Primary Aim of Japanese Foreign Policy between 1870-1900 was to rid Japan of the unequal treaties.

What foreign policy led by the USA in the 1920s increased feelings of national grievance in Japan?

American immigration policy: practised blatantly anti-Japanese immigration
1907-8: Theodore Roosevelt's "Gentlemen's Agreement': to limit Japanese emmigration

1924: Immigration Exclusion Act (Coolidge presidency):
Barred all Japanese emmigration, even from Canada

Moreover, Japanese immigrants were prohibited from naturalizing
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What part of the Treaty of Versailles deepened Japanese grievances?

Rejection of a Japanese and Chinese proposal to add an racial equality clause to the treaty

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