Prefectures
limited education
the establishment of assemblies the abandonment of past customs a search for knowledge to strengthen imperial rule
Japan was an oligarchy in the Meiji period that lasted until 1912.
In 1871, the Meiji leaders of Japan faced significant financial challenges, primarily stemming from the need to modernize the economy after the end of the Tokugawa shogunate. They dealt with a lack of funds to support industrialization, infrastructure development, and military reforms. Additionally, the government struggled with a large public debt, exacerbated by the costs of the Boshin War and ongoing expenses related to modernization efforts. These financial difficulties necessitated reforms in taxation and the establishment of a more centralized financial system.
This question is really contingent on another question: "When?" In the 17th Century, the Tokugawa Bakufu forbade foreigners real access to Japan in part to protect domestic markets. In 1868, samurai overthrew the Bakufu to install the Emperor as the center of political power. This was called the Meiji Restoration, and was in part a reaction to the failure of the Bakufu to protect the Japanese economy from the encroachments of the United States, Britain, and France in 1853. This was also a way to give samurai jobs in light of their falling economic power. In the early 20th Century, Japan's imperial government injected massive amounts of capital into the economy to militarize. They began fighting wars with Korea and China to expand their territories and great new lands for Japanese development. In the 1950's, Japan's government loosened antimonopoly laws to help re-establish business "partnerships" and "networks" (keiretsu) to create powerful economic engines. In the 1990's, after the collapse of the real estate market in Japan, the government tried to improve its economy by massive grants of money to private companies to build infrastructural projects throughout the country and by giving banks who had lost all of their capital funds loans to recover them. In the mid-2000's, Japan's government under Koizumi Jun'ichiro privatized its postal service in an attempt to improve its economy. In 2010, the government of Hatoyama Yukio attempted to make the economy better by expanding entitlements, providing new types of free education, and upping health care payments/reimbursements.
prefectures
They adopted the German model for a government.
It was an alliance between the Imperial court, certain Tozama Daimyo and the Satcho Alliance.
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Government positions were prestigious.
The Tokugawa Bakufu was ruled by a shogun, or military leader. The government of Meiji Japan was led by an Emperor.
Revolutionized and modernized japan
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The Japanese government: Meiji basically crushed and threatened them and didnt care about rural areas except for the taxes that they paid.