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Japan modernized during the

Japan modernized during the . The Meiji government also reformed politics, creating a parliament and a constitution while keeping its emperor. . This established Japan as a and constitutional democracy. Japan’s Modernization.

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  1. Japan modernized during the

  2. The Meiji government also reformed politics, creating a parliament and a constitution while keeping its emperor. This established Japan as a and constitutional democracy.

  3. Japan’s Modernization Japan studied the rise of the West and concluded that two things had given the West dominance: • I • E • War • War • annexation of Japan’s focus on developing its industry and its empire during the Meiji period helped create the Japan that would eventually be a major world power in World War II.

  4. Factory in Meiji Japan

  5. Military Advancements of the Meiji Period

  6. Sino-Japanese War

  7. CONSIDER:Japan modernized rapidly in the late 1800s and rose to dominate East and Southeast Asia in the first half of the 20th Century. It accomplished this without the socio-cultural changes that the West experienced: Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment. Does that imply that modernization and political and economic dominance in today’s world does not require Western ideas/ideals? Or is Japan just an extraordinary exception?

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