Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Opium War In China and Japan?

Question:


What relation did the opium wars in China have to do with Japan? Can someone make any definite connections? The focus is around 19th century japan.

Answer:


Check Wikipedia first of all for this kind of topic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium…

Basically, it had nothing to do with Japan. But Japanese leaders were horrified to know that Western nations were much stronger than Qing.

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