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    The Meiji Restoration (Japanese: 明治維新, romanized: Meiji Ishin), referred to at the time as the Honorable Restoration (御一新, Goisshin), and also known as...
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    of the Empire of Japan and presided over the Meiji era. His reign is associated with the Meiji Restoration, a series of rapid changes that witnessed Japan's...
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    Postwar Constitution was enacted as an amendment to the Meiji Constitution. The Meiji Restoration in 1868 provided Japan a form of constitutional monarchy...
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    used in Japan for three figures that played an important role in the Meiji Restoration in 1868 and are regarded as the founders of the modern state of Japan...
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    The Meiji era (明治時代, Meiji jidai, [meꜜː(d)ʑi] ) was an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912. The Meiji era was...
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    Demographic features of the population of Japan before the Meiji Restoration include aspects of nationality, religion, and ethnicity. Before the establishment...
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    Saigō Takamori (category Meiji Restoration)
    who led the Meiji Restoration. Living during the late Edo and early Meiji periods, he later led the Satsuma Rebellion against the Meiji government. Historian...
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  • however some words have been borrowed back to Chinese. During the Meiji Restoration, Japanese words were invented en masse to represent western concepts...
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    of the family continued as daimyo houses until the Meiji Restoration. After the Meiji Restoration, all four houses of the clan were appointed Viscount...
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    The Museum of the Meiji Restoration (維新ふるさと館, Ishin-furusato-kan) is a history museum in Kagoshima, Japan. Located by the Kōtsuki River, it is a gallery...
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  • The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War is a 2017 history book by Sarah C. Paine about the Empire of Japan....
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    daimyō of the Chōshū Domain under the Tokugawa shogunate. After the Meiji Restoration with the abolition of the han system and daimyō, the Mōri clan became...
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    afford to pay samurai in money. The daimyo era ended soon after the Meiji Restoration with the adoption of the prefecture system in 1871. The shugo daimyo...
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    Harajuku (redirect from Meiji Avenue)
    Harajuku Station on the East Japan Railway (JR East) Yamanote Line and Meiji-jingumae 'Harajuku' Station served by the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line and Tokyo...
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    emperor. After the Meiji Restoration in 1868, the emperor was the embodiment of all sovereign power in the realm, as enshrined in the Meiji Constitution of...
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    pursued by Japan, especially the Imperial Japanese Army, between the Meiji Restoration and Japan's expansion during World War II. The policy's major aim...
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    simply Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the reformed Constitution of Japan...
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  • events such as travel, weddings, and funerals. This lasted until the Meiji Restoration. Also, peasants were not prohibited from owning weapons. For example...
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    supporters of the Imperial Court in the Meiji Restoration in 1868. The Empire of Japan was established under the Meiji government, and Tokugawa loyalists continued...
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    Muromachi period. The Kenmu Restoration was the last time the Emperor of Japan held significant power until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. The Emperor's role...
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    was primarily inhabited by the Ainu people. In 1869, following the Meiji Restoration, the entire island was annexed by Japan and renamed Hokkaido. As a...
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    The Meiji oligarchy was the new ruling class of Meiji period Japan. In Japanese, the Meiji oligarchy is called the domain clique (藩閥, hambatsu). The members...
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    “chosen people.” The modernization of Japan, which began with the Meiji Restoration in 1868, produced a number of historical writings that tried to define...
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    Tokugawa Yoshinobu relinquished the office to Emperor Meiji in 1867 as part of the Meiji Restoration. The term shogun (将軍, lit. 'army commander') is the...
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    resolution to commemorate his role in the Meiji Restoration. An iris garden in an area of Tokyo where Emperor Meiji and Empress Shōken had been known to visit...
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  • 1867 and 1912 Meiji era, the name given to that period in Japanese history Meiji Restoration, the revolution that began the Meiji period Meiji Constitution...
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    Japan embarked on a program of rapid modernization following the Meiji Restoration, before defeating China, under the Qing dynasty, in the First Sino-Japanese...
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  • the Meiji Restoration fully occurred. On that day, the Emperor stripped Yoshinobu of all power and made a formal declaration of the restoration of his...
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    – and the Meiji Restoration in 1868, which saw the feudal shogunate dismantled in favour of a Western-style modern empire. During the Meiji period, Western-style...
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  • liberal Taishō democracy. The aims of the "Shōwa Restoration" were similar to the Meiji Restoration as the groups who envisioned it imagined a small group...
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