Sarah Paine

And they will take it by land the same way they're going to take it in the Russo-Japanese War.

The Chinese fleet, what's left of it, flees to Weihaiwei, hang out in port.

Japan lands an army on the Shandong Peninsula there, and also it blockades with its navy.

And then the army turns the landward guns on the ships and port, and they sink them all.

And that is the end of that war.

Okay.

Here's what Japan got out of this war.

And what I got is a very simple framework, domestic, regional, international.

This is a way to help you remember what I'm going to tell you.

Three-part frameworks are helpful for getting information to other people.

Domestically,

This victory in this war validated a very controversial Westernization program.

All those Meiji reforms, which sound so great in retrospect, actually the Japanese population didn't like them.

Who wants their kids being sent to elementary school if they were working on the farm before?

And who wants this Westernized curriculum?

Who likes Westerners anyway?

And people are wearing all this Western clothing and stuff.

It's crazy land.

Why would anyone like that?

Once Japan wins this war and trounces China, a lot of Japanese have second thoughts about this.