School of Pharmacy, Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan. During
Japan modernized during the
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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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Japan studied the rise of the West and concluded that two things had given the West dominance:
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.
Factory in Meiji Japan
Military Advancements of the Meiji Period
Sino-Japanese War
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?