JAPAN EMPIRE:

Fall of Tokugawa Shogunate Empire

After around 250 years of the Tokugawa Shogunate Empire, the empire finally collapsed. The empire collapsed for many different reasons but the main influence was the poor leadership. The empire collapsed because they defeated themselves in the inside, not from other countries. An emperor named Shogun Lemitsu thought that the empire was becoming to influenced by other countries and didn't want that to happen. He decided to ban trade and that cut of the communication between other countries and it didn't allow the empire to get new information and materials needed. This also made a huge decline in the economy for them. Since there wasn't much communication between the countries the empire didn't gain any new technological advancements or  military equipment. This allowed a lot of attacks on the empire because their military was weak. It allowed a Daimyo group  to bombard Japan. They forced the empire to rapidly modernize their empire which caused a lot of debt. Even later on another emperor named Tokugawa Yoshinobu got a lot of threats from groups called Choshu and Satsuma. This caused him to resign (was the last emperor). Since he resigned the daimyo took over and led to the Boshin War.  This war was about the power that would hold in the future with the emperor. After two years the daimyo (Choshu and Satsuma part of group) declared the  Meiji Restoration. This ended the Tokugawa Shogunate Empire which lasted from 1603-1868.

 

 

 

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