How the Meiji Restoration Turned Japan into an Empire - Pacific War #0.2

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The new Kings and Generals' historical animated documentary series covering the Pacific War week by week continues with a video on the Meiji restoration, as we see how this set of reforms turned Japan into an empire setting up the Pacific war - the fierce conflict between the USA and the Empire of Japan. We are planning to cover all major events and battles of the war.
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You forgot to mention the Iwakura Mission. Where Japanese academics, politicians and scientists made a tour through the west and carefully examined every aspect of society in Western Powers to figure out how to implement those in their own country in their own way.

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I remember learning that, it was an incredible move. By combining methods of multiple states and cultures they made systems with as many advantages and as few disadvantages as possible

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Yup , they learned their navy skills from British

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The Japanese are truly remarkable people. The smartest of Asia.

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Thats what china does now

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It is truly impressive how fast they changed in a generation.

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And how their progress still remains.

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I would like to watch a future episode of how Japan transform the industry and navy sector in just 50 years

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Same

[@enkhbayardashjamts4923]

Please understand that industrialization started well with the first contacts with Western powers, and Ming dynasty self-isolation policy helped greatly to establish in Japan manufacturing sectors well few centuries before Chinese understand it. Then all gains known they just closed inside, but when understand that they again backwards just opened again. Whereas Qing and Korea still been strictly closed countries.

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Are those Japanese torpedo boats in the middle of the Atlantic???

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@@augustosolari7721 Nope. It's a fishing boat. Ah, let's shell it anyway!

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Japan: "It's simple: We just got rid of the Samurai".

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@پیاده نظام خان I used to fight for honor, now I fight for money. I defend Japan in legal battles nd civil disputes.

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I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say the Meiji Restoration is one of the most impressive feats in human history

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Japan modernizing so quickly, and building such a powerful modern military as well, is truly impressive.

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This is awesome. I am literally teaching Meiji restoration to my class at the moment. Will be a great resource. Thank you.

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A really well structured and explained video. Thanks for the hard work!

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[@gorotv5826]

What is always overlooked about Japan becoming a modern nation in a short period of time due to the Meiji Restoration is the spread of Japan's urbanization and education in the Edo period. Even before Matthew Perry arrived, Edo, which is now Tokyo, was the largest city in the world and had the world's highest literacy rate due to the spread of private cram schools called terakoya. The legible public carried out various cultural activities, and the mass consumer society flourished. Each domain controlled by a feudal lord tried to promote local specialties and competed with each other, and handicraft industry developed at the highest level. Under such circumstances, modern political systems and the machinery industry were imported from the West, and Japan succeeded in modernization at once.

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[@lordkent8143]

It's amazing to think that although the Samurai class has been expelled or phased out by this time, the Samurai spirit is still strong in Japan's ambition in its empire building.

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Thank you kings and generals for covering this topic. I've been interested in studying about the meiji restoration but no entertaining documentary series has made me look into it. Until now. 👍

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The Meiji Restoration is a true feat of Japanese achievement. To be able to adapt and modernize so quickly without losing the traditional social fabric that has tied the country together for centuries is pretty extraordinary.

[@Bullet-Tooth-Tony-]

Yeah despite modernising they still maintained the Discipline of the Samurai

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Well they kind of did, even some of the early supporters of modernisation, staged armed rebellions when they felt the government was abandoning what it meant to be Japanese in the name of progress.

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WTF the Samurai rebelled because they lost their privileges.

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Thailand also reformed and survived. Also an interesting story

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​@@JP-tr3kpalso never got effectively colonized

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Though China and Thailand escaped complete colonialism by conceding territories, no territories of Japan proper was ever colonized by outside powers, which is pretty impressive.

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"Cut a portion of rice from my diet, then we’ll able to own budgets for vessels & to beat Qing navy" -Meiji

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Those Qing battleships are made in german, while those imperial japanese made in britain

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Hm, are you sure? Showing Alaska as US territory during Perry’s “visit” to Japan in 1853-55? If I remember correctly Alaska was Russian “Amerika” until 1867!

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When I was a kid I used to watch an anime called Rurouni Kenshin (Samurai X in Latin America) which was set during the initial years of the Meiji Restoration. I mostly watched it for the badass fist and sword fights, but revisiting as an adult I found fascinating how it accurately describes the struggle of people caught between eras. Those who refuse change and will violently fight to oppose it, those who just want to blend in the new reality and those who embrace change either because it will give them power or bring peace and stability. And many characters are based on actual historical characters, they even have a complete arc based on the Shimabara rebellion of the Japanese christians against the Shogunate. Few works of fiction delve into history like that! And it was probably one of the factors that made me interested in history in general and therefore love this channel later :)

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14:45 this also indirectly lead to the independence declaration of Finland later in 1917, no wonder we are good buddies with Japanese

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The journey of the 2nd Pacific Squadron is honestly one of the most comedic episodes of military history. Its such a cavalcade of errors and incompetence. From shooting wildly in every direction due to the imaginary threat of Japanese torpedo boats in the Baltic Sea, to nearly starting a war with the British Empire by shooting at (and missing) an English fishing fleet, to successfully hitting one of their own ships during a gun salute because the ship doing the salute used live ammunition, to repeatedly crashing into one another on the journey around Europe, to cutting the telegraph wire at Tangiers while going out of port, to filling the ships with so much coal that the ships developed a thick coating of coal dust, to my personal favorite anecdote: capturing deadly predators on Madagascar as exotic pets... only for the ships to become floating zoos filled with angry crocodiles, mischievous lemurs and venomous snakes. Apparently Rozhetsvensky had a crate of 50 binoculars on his ship. The reason was that anytime something went wrong, he would throw a set of binoculars into the sea in frustration. One wonders how many of the 50 still remained after the battle.

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Imagine if the strange Ezo Republic had survived... a republic born from feudal lords Granted, realistically, it's not likely, as even if it survived the Boshin War, it would have been one of the first lands to be annexed or conquered by an imperialistic Japan, much like the Kingdom of the Ryukyus. And like the Ryukyus, the victorious Allied Powers (mainly the US) probably would not have tried too hard to separate them from Japan after the Pacific War (World War II)

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