The Meiji Restoration

The Meiji Restoration and Modernization

Learning Goal: 8: Examine the Meiji Restoration and its impact on Japan’s transformation into an imperial empire.

Japan before the Meiji restoration

• China had been the dominant power and richest economy

• By the nineteenth century, an emperor had reigned in Japan for around 1,500 years.

• • 1185 to 1868, the actual emperor held very little power.

  • The shogunate (government run by a shogun) dominated Japanese politics

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The fall of the Shogunate

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The Meiji restoration

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Japan becomes a nation-state

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Military reforms

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What did the Meiji restoration accomplish?