History: The Meiji Restoration Of 1868 Japan

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During 1868 Japan went through a change that led to the restoration of power in the Meiji Emperor called The Meiji Restoration. The people during the time that were affected the most were the peasants and female silk workers. The Meiji restoration benefited some but not all because peasants barely survived the war and snowstorm of 1884, Young woman were sold by their parents to the factories and modernization that helped the people of Japan mostly was the transportation, The lives of the peasants were very difficult because it seemed like the people didn’t really care for how the peasants lived or the difficulties they faced.
The peasants of this time period 1884 didn’t survive the war and snowstorm. Peasants fighting through the storm didn’t …show more content…

I think that these quotes explain my thesis because this isn’t a beneficial to peasants if it’s describing how and what happen to them or it’s mentioning how badly they got buried. Peasants didn’t get enough of an education for their children also only a couple people were able to go to school because it was recovered by the tuition charge they were getting. I feel like if the parents had a tuition charge and only a few were able to go to school why couldn’t the rest go with a tuition charge. Both quotes are telling me that because certain parents have a charge on their tuition some kids can’t get an education and have to work in a house or on a farm but while working at these places the families were still proved with the financial burden. I feel like this supports my claim because it’s discussing the fact that the peasants didn’t get a chance at an education because it was too difficult enough for them to even send their children to school. Sometimes the tuition fees would have a range from a …show more content…

To me this quote means that since peasants and townspeople aren’t really like people that aren’t really honorable towards mention the samurai, he feels like he can do anything or tell them whatever to do also address them in insulting ways as I quote “Until the end of war the former samurai addressed us in insulting terms” I feel like the samurai are very slanderous type of samurais so they got rid of him after the war was done. “Well, even though the lord of Satsuma was replaced by the emperor, that was something that happened high above and had no relation to us”. This quote is not similar to the first quote because it’s announcing that since they got an emperor and got rid of the samurai it has no relations to how the peasants got treated. My first quote represents my supporting claim by reason of the fact that this an example of being treated unfairly by somebody who has more power above them or just feels that they have the power to do whatever they please by result of their rankings. The working conditions for the female silk workers were hard and unsafe. I cite this reference in interest of how the working obligations are and the equipment they work such as the boiling hot water ,

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