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Essay / Creation of Modern Japan - 1233
IntroductionThe Meiji Restoration refers to the time when Western technology was adopted by the Japanese, allowing them to fully industrialize, which took less than fifty years . The great general “Tokugawa Shogun” ruled Japan in the feudal years and he lost his power and Emperor Meiji took over. When Emperor Meiji was appointed leader of the Japanese in 1868, the country was a militarily vulnerable region, primarily agricultural and technically undeveloped. It was absolutely run by many semi-independent feudal lords. Western forces – the European Union as well as the United States – got Japan to sign treaties that limited its control over foreign trade and also ensured that any violators of the law who were not Japanese would not is not judged by Japanese courts but by Western courts. At the end of the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese had no fear of being imperialized, but instead decided to practice imperialism themselves in order to gain power and acquire natural resources. Japan, in turn, has become one of the world-class powers using Western technology and methods while preserving the traditional cultural values of Japan's local population. By the end of the Meiji period and the loss of the emperor's life in 1912, Japan had achieved: an incredibly centralized and bureaucratic government, a constitution creating an elected parliament, a system of transportation and well-developed communication, an incredibly educated population freed from feudal educational limitations, an established and rapidly growing industrial sector based on the most advanced technology, and a powerful military. Japan has regained complete management of its first...... middle of paper ...... rights with westerns. Japan has been extremely productive throughout in planning a good commercial and capitalist state according to Western models. But whenever Japan attempted to exploit lessons learned from Western European imperialism, Western countries reacted negatively. This is how Japan's main handicap was introduced late into the world dominated by the West. Colonialism and racist ideology were entrenched in all Western countries, allowing a non-white region, a good "upstart", to enter on an equal footing in the race for natural resources and other segments of the walk. Much of the uncertainty between the West and Japan stemmed from Japan's sense of alienation from the West, which used different standards to treat Western European countries than it did. what he would do with a nation with a rising Asian power like Japan..