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The Meiji Restoration

The Meiji Restoration. Meiji Restoration. The Meiji Restoration was not a traditional revolution but rather was a transformation that possessed qualities similar to a revolution. Why is it not a true revolution?.

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The Meiji Restoration

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  1. The Meiji Restoration

  2. Meiji Restoration • The Meiji Restoration was not a traditional revolution but rather was a transformation that possessed qualities similar to a revolution.

  3. Why is it not a true revolution? • It was not violent and did not result in the displacement of one ruling class by another. • The existing elites carried out a series of major reforms that transformed society but left their own power intact.

  4. The Reforms: Economic • Transformed the massive serf population into citizens. • Promotion of Industry • High Taxes • Independently achieved • Reforms brought severe hardship to working populous.

  5. The Reforms: Social • Dismantled traditional social system in Japan • Abolished hereditary rights • Imperial army created • Universal Education based off of American model • Bright students studied abroad, and foreign scholars brought in to teach in the new schools. • Women still restricted in the area of education • Confucian virtues emphasized in schools

  6. Reforms: Political • Emulate Western approach to foreign affairs • 1908-annexxed Korea as integral part of Japan • Abolished remnants of old order and undercut the power of the daimyo • New Constitution 1890 • Democratic in form, despotic in practice • Core ideology- Kokutai: national polity

  7. Cultural “Revolution” • Emulated the West in Literature, Architecture, Art, and Fashion. • Literature westernized, no longer the repetitive stories of Tokugawa era.

  8. The Japanese Miracle • Transformation from a rural, agrarian society, to an industrializing society in little more than half a century considered a miracle • The Final Product was a mixture of old and new, native and foreign, and a new civilization that was still uniquely Japanese.

  9. Conclusion • The Meiji Restoration almost completely transformed Japanese society • But, it was NOT a revolution in the technical sense

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