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1. Who was Shôgun when Perry's ships arrived in 1853?
2. Sonnô jôi, the philosophy of the shishi, means...
3. The foreigners attacked by Satsuma retainers in the Namamugi incident were from which country?
4. The shishi who killed the Tairô Ii Naosuke in the Sakuradamon-gai Incident were primarily from...
5. What was Kido Takayoshi's name until he changed it in 1865?
6. What was the name of Takechi Hanpeita's group of Tosa shishi?
7. On March 31 1854, the US and Japan signed a treaty opening Shimoda and Hakodate to trade, and establishing an American consul in Japan. This is called the Convention of...
8. Despite its alleged backwardness, the Bakufu (Shogunate) also recognized the need to modernize to meet the threat from the west. What was its number one priority for modernization?
9. In 1858, the United States, quickly followed by other Western powers, forced Japan to sign a second unequal treaty, known as the Harris Treaty. What was NOT a provision of the treaty?
10. What name was given to the movement to strengthen the country by reconciling the Bakufu and the Court?
11. Which of the following people died by seppuku?
12. After the surrender of Edo in the Boshin War, the Bakufu naval officer Enomoto Takeaki tried to set up a pro-Tokugawa republic in...
13. Who killed the Tosa shishi Sakamoto Ryôma?
14. Who negotiated the surrender of Edo castle to Saigô Takamori during the Boshin War?
15. Which of the following Chôshû leaders survived into the Meiji era?
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