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Article Evaluation
Everything in the article titled "Meiji Restoration" is relevant to the history that we all know and have studied in course. However, it feels like the article is missing some facts that would tie all of the facts on this historical moment in Japanese history. I wish that the author of the article would've went in depth on how the impact that this transition of era has affected the samurai. The article is rated C, perhaps because this is simply just a summary of this era and that the author didn't want to make the article too confusing for readers.

Japanese Militarism
Before Japan could be known for their military power, they lacked the resources to be distinguished as a powerful country. The Japanese people know they were capable to establish one of the most powerful military that the world has ever seen. However, this meant that they needed to sacrifice a lot and they were fine with it because they wanted to accomplish themselves, starting of with detaching themselves from Western powers. The Rise of Japan's military powers came as a compensation after having a stable economy and seeing that European countries had a resourceful military and tried to follow its footsteps. As a result, the Japanese attempted to take parts of China and Korea as colonies. The rise of Japan's military unfortunately led to the attacks in Pearl Harbor, which it is seen in history as a plot for revenge against the United States.

Japan attacking Pearl Harbor
The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor happened on December 7, 1941. The reasons behind this attack has been motivated as a result of anger that has been fueled by the Japanese people against the United States and their past rocky relationship. Japan had plans to take over other Asian countries, which resulted in the US to strip any war materials and resources to be sold to the Japanese and froze all assets and bank accounts in the US. The US fleet moved from being stationed in California to be moved in Pearl Harbor to somewhat control Japan's aggression and imposed on an embargo of essential materials, because Japan was trying to take over and control more territories.