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	Meiji Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Emperor Meiji was the surviving son of the Emperor Kōmei by the lady-in-waiting Nakayama Yoshiko (1834–1907), the daughter of Lord Nakayama Tadayasu, sometime minister of the left (sadaijin) and a scion of the Fujiwara.
		Meiji, if nothing else, showed greater political longevity than his recent predecessors, as he was the first Japanese monarch to remain on the throne past the age of 50 since the abdication of Emperor Ogimachi in 1586.
		The Meiji Restoration is a source of pride for the Japanese, as it and the accompanying industrialization allowed Japan to become the preeminent power in the Pacific Ocean and a major player in the world within a generation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Meiji_Emperor (919 words)

	Meiji period - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Government leaders, long preoccupied with violent threats to stability and the serious leadership split over the Korean affair, generally agreed that constitutional government should someday be established.
		One of the Meiji oligarchy, Ito Hirobumi (1841–1909), a Choshu native long involved in government affairs, was charged with drafting Japan's constitution.
		The government was initially involved in economic modernization, providing a number of "model factories" to facilitate the transition to the modern period.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Meiji_period (1830 words)

	Japan from Tokugawa to Meiji
		Meiji Japan established a constitution in 1889 modeled on a political theory of a German, Lorenz von Stein, who held that a monarchy existed to arbitrate between groups with competing interests, to prevent the exploitation of the weak by the strong.
		Early in the reign of Emperor Meiji, Japan's government was determined to modernize the country's economy.
		For the sake of industrial growth the Meiji government supported the industrialists and was opposed to strikes.
	www.fsmitha.com /h3/h48japan.htm (3716 words)

	Rurouni Kenshin
		In one of the early episodes, the Meiji police warn Kenshin that it is illegal for him to carry a sword.
		Yet for a while he is plagued both by those who would have him join the Meiji government and by those who would exact their revenge for his past actions.
		However, after establishing the legitimate government, the leaders decided that Shishio knew too much; his knowledge was dangerous and could destroy the Meiji government while it was still in its infancy.
	www.ex.org /4.1/05-feature_ruroken2.html (991 words)

	Meiji Emperor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mutsuhito (睦仁), the Meiji Emperor (明治天皇) (3 November 1852 - 30 July 1912) was the 122nd Emperor of Japan.
		The Emperor Meiji was the surviving son of the Emperor Komei by the lady-in-waiting Nakayama Yoshiko (1834-1907), the daughter of Lord Nakayama Tadayasu, sometime minister of the left (sadaijin) and a scion of the Fujiwara.
		On 2 September 1867, the Emperor Meiji married Lady Haruko (28 May 1849-19 April 1914), the third daughter of Lord Ichijō Tadaka, sometime minister of the left (sadaijin)).
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/meiji_emperor (959 words)

	MEIJI UNIVERSITY : General Infomatioin
		Yashiro secured a position in the House of Elders, the legislative branch of the government, and as such was in charge of the education and administration at such private law schools as the Kohogakusha (founded by Doryu Kitabatake).
		The Meiji Law School was granted university status by the University Establishment Ordinance on 1 April 1920, and was renamed Meiji University.
		Meiji University was able to finally achieve university status through the strenuous efforts of its staff, students and alumni.
	www.meiji.ac.jp /cip/english/general_info/history.html (1062 words)

	Prefectures of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The current system was established by the Meiji government in July 1871, and is known as the abolition of the han system.
		Although there were initially over 300 prefectures, many of them being former han territories, this number was reduced to 72 in the latter part of 1871, and 47 in 1888.
		The central government wanted to have a greater degree of control over Tokyo due to Japan's deteriorating position in World War II and the possibility of emergency in the metropolis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prefectures_of_Japan (1020 words)

	Japanese history: Meiji Period
		The emperor Meiji was moved from Kyoto to Tokyo which became the new capital; his imperial power was restored.
		In order to stabilize the new government, the former feudal lords (daimyo) had to return all their lands to the emperor.
		In 1912 emperor Meiji died, and the era of the ruling clique of elder statesmen (genro) was about to end.
	www.japan-guide.com /e/e2130.html (692 words)

	Sample Chapter for Yukio, O.; Hara, F., trans.: The Autobiography of Ozaki Yukio: The Struggle for Constitutional ...
		At this point, the Meiji government decided that there was a pressing need to first unify the debates going on in each of the domains, and to promote mutual understanding between upper and lower elements of society.
		In this way the core of the government came to be occupied solely by representatives of the four clans, and their ambitions to conduct autocratic government with the aid of their cliques were now becoming obvious.
		Yet, the manifold decrees of the government appear in the morning and are changed in the evening, the administration is influenced by private considerations, rewards and punishments depend on personal favor or disfavor, the channel by which the people should communicate with the government is blocked, and they cannot state their grievances.
	pup.princeton.edu /chapters/s7078.html (20712 words)

	AllRefer.com - Meiji restoration (Japanese History) - Encyclopedia
		Meiji restoration, The term refers to both the events of 1868 that led to the "restoration" of power to the emperor and the entire period of revolutionary changes that coincided with the Meiji emperor's reign (1868–1912).
		These domains, excluded from the Tokugawa governing councils because of their status as tozama, or outside daimyo, then demanded creation of a new government loyal to the emperor to expel the foreigners.
		The new Meiji government moved quickly to discard the feudal system and launch a series of reforms that profoundly changed Japanese society.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/Meijires.html (456 words)

	Encyclopedia: Meiji Restoration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Meiji Restoration (Japanese: ææ²»ç¶æ—°, Meiji-ishin), also known as the Meiji Ishin, Revolution or Renewal, was a chain of events that led to a change in Japan's political and social structure.
		These were leading figures in the Meiji Restoration when the Japanese emperors retook power from the Tokugawa shoguns.
		The Meiji Revolution can be seen as a catalyst towards industrialization in Japan that led to the rise of the island nation as a world power by 1918, under the slogan of "National Wealth and Military Strength".
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Meiji-Restoration (2245 words)

	Meiji Restoration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Shortly thereafter in January 1868, the Boshin War (War of the Year of the Dragon) started with the Battle of Toba Fushimi in which the new government's army, led by the forces from Choshu and Satsuma defeated the shogun's army.
		The defeat of the armies of the former shogun (led by Hijikata Toshizo) marked the end of the Meiji Restoration; all defiance to the emperor and his rule ended.
		The leaders of the Meiji Restoration, as this revolution came to be known, claimed that their actions restored the emperor's powers.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/meiji_restoration (396 words)

	Tokugawa Period’s Influence on Meiji Restoration
		The Meiji period (1868-1912) brought about the rapid modernization of Japanese economic, political, and social institutions, which resulted in Japan's attaining the status of the leading country in Asia and a world economic and political power.
		During the first half of the Meiji period, from 1868 to 1890, the Meiji oligarchs instituted numerous reforms to achieve domestic stability, promote industrialization, improve education, and establish an effective government structure, including the promulgation of a constitution in 1889.
		Even though the Meiji oligarchs came from the samurai class, some samurai were not ready to surrender their privileged status in the Tokugawa class structure without a struggle.
	wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu /papers/jhist1.htm (1491 words)

	Modern History: The Meiji Restoration and Modernization
		The government closely controlled the schools, making sure that in addition to skills like mathematics and reading, all students studied "moral training," which stressed the importance of their duty to the emperor, the country and their families.
		The Japanese government was angered by this incident and drew the lesson that for Japan to maintain its independence and receive equal treatment in international affairs, it was necessary to strengthen its military even further.
		The government and military, consequently, grew stronger, the parliament weaker.
	afe.easia.columbia.edu /japan/japanworkbook/modernhist/meiji.html (5121 words)

	AllRefer.com - Japan - The Meiji Restoration \| Japanese Information Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Meiji government assured the foreign powers that it would abide by the old treaties negotiated by the bakufu and announced that it would act in accordance with international law.
		Inasmuch as the Meiji Restoration had sought to return the emperor to a preeminent position, efforts were made to establish a Shinto-oriented state much like the state of 1,000 years earlier.
		The Meiji oligarchy, as the new ruling class is known to historians, was a privileged clique that exercised imperial power, sometimes despotically.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/japan/japan35.html (1323 words)

	Meiji restoration on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The term refers to both the events of 1868 that led to the “restoration” of power to the emperor and the entire period of revolutionary changes that coincided with the Meiji emperor's reign (1868-1912).
		In the late Meiji years, Japan won the Sino-Japanese war in 1895, defeated Russia in 1905, abolished the treaties with the West, and became a world power.
		Jingu Kogo ema in Southwestern Japan: reflections and anticipations of the seikanron debate in the late Tokugawa and early Meiji period.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/Meijires.asp (676 words)

	Emperor Meiji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Meiji (1852-1912), emperor of Japan (1867-1912), born Prince Mutsuhito and the 122nd emperor in the traditional count, whose accession to the throne marked the beginning of a national revolution known as the Meiji Restoration.
		His presence was essential to the new government as a source of legitimacy, as a sanction for its transformation of Japan, and as the centre of the authoritarian cult of
		The Meiji shrine in the centre of Tokyo was built in his honour.
	www.ox.compsoc.net /~gemini/simons/historyweb/meiji-emperor.html (188 words)

	Satsuma Rebellion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		After peace was restored in Hizen, the government sent delegates to Saigō and the others in an attempt to persuade them to return.
		By 1876, Satsuma had effectively seceded from the national government, as they forwarded no taxes on to Tokyo, and ignored other social reform orders of the Meiji government.
		Regardless of the cause, in early 1877, Saigō led a rebellion of samurai against the Meiji government, which ended in September of 1877, with the near total destruction of the rebels.
	www.willamette.edu /~cgrady/events.html (430 words)

	Meiji Nationalism
		The very same printmakers, however, when the issue was not domestic policy but a foreign enemy, were quick to take the side of government and nation in creating propaganda prints of the Meiji government's foreign wars.
		War prints, like those of historical warriors in Meiji, were an open affirmation of the greatness of the nation, but superior to warrior prints in depicting present and immediate heroes, the Japanese (of any class) who had excelled just days before on the battlefield.
		Albums of prints assembled by their owners and surviving from the Meiji Period show that the audience for these different genres of prints was not necessarily divided, but that the same gatherer might display a kabuki actor on one page, a print of the emperor on the next, and a war scene later on.
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	Satsuma Rebellion - Meiji Period
		The first test of the young Meiji government came with the revolt of the powerful Satsuma clan based in the southern region of the island of Kyushu.
		After nine years of working close to the central government, the samurai of Satsuma had grown dissatisfied with the direction the government was taking.
		The rebellion was led by Saigo Takamori, a giant of a man with an engaging personality who, just a few years earlier, had been a leader in the government and who, as field marshall, had actually been responsible for forming the government army that he now opposed.
	www.taisho.com /satsuma.html (501 words)

	MEIJI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the bill to the Choshu government for the purchase of the ship Union appears an item for sake for treating Bakufu officials, suggesting that the price of influence was small.
		No less a person than Kido Takayoshi of Choshu was dispatched by the new Meiji government to Nagasaki to deal with these violators of the ancient ban on the alien religion in 1868.
		By then Nagasaki, the source of arms for his revolution and an agency of the new government's modernization policies, had dropped behind the treaty ports closer to Tokyo, and Glover had gone bankrupt.
	www.uwosh.edu /home_pages/faculty_staff/earns/meiji.html (3293 words)

	Meiji Constitution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In Japan, under the Meiji Restoration, the American System was adopted, with Carey...
		In 1881, Ito Hirobumi announced that the government would draft the Meiji Constitution in a decade.
		It was adopted on February 11, 1889 and went into effect in Japan on November 29, 1890.
	www.wikiverse.org /meiji-constitution (237 words)

	GALLERY 5
		The reform movement for "civilization and enlightenment" which called for adoption of Western civilization was the government's ambitious attempt to transform Japan into a modern society.
		The Meiji government adopted a number of modernization policies.
		This display introduces the development of government policies for transportation maintenance, silk production and international trade, the beginning of steel manufacturing, the development of Hokkaido, and the suffering this development caused the Ainu people.
	www.rekihaku.ac.jp /e_zyoosetu/no5/index.html (429 words)

	Japan - Opposition to the Meiji Oligarchy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Eto, the founder of various patriotic organizations, conspired with other discontented elements to start an armed insurrection against government troops in Saga, the capital of his native prefecture in Kyushu in 1874.
		Three years later, the last major armed uprising--but the most serious challenge to the Meiji government-- took shape in the Satsuma Rebellion, this time with Saigo playing an active role.
		The suppression of the Satsuma Rebellion marked the end of serious threats to the Meiji regime but was sobering to the oligarchy.
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	Emperor Meiji
		One statesman of the Meiji government, Ito Hirobumi, became a major driving force in the Westernization of Japan.
		He was a man of humble origins, but became the most influential person of the Meiji until his assassination in 1909.
		After the proclamation of the Meiji restoration, prints depicting scenes from the imperial court and images showing the fast industrial development of Japan became popular.
	www.artelino.com /articles/emperor_meiji.asp (1300 words)

	AnimeNation News
		The Shinsengumi, a ruthless government sponsored peacekeeping force of the late Edo period, has been popular in Japanese pop culture for nearly a century in novels, plays, movies, television series, and anime.
		Considering that the Meiji government outlawed the possession of swords in 1876, the ninth year of the Meiji era, samurai anime that feature a lot of swordplay are almost obligated to occur prior to the Meiji era.
		Likewise, the third story arc of the Shura no Toki anime TV series deals with the Shinsengumi during their heyday, which is actually during the last years of the Edo period.
	www.animenation.net /news/askjohn.php?id=1057 (370 words)

	Japanese Government in Meiji Period (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The government sent missions to research and evaluate the educational systems of Western nations and to glean from these what they wanted for their own.
		The basic constitutions during the Meiji and Occupation eras are remarkably simlar with concern to the formation of the government.
		Unlike the Meiji period, during the Ocuupation era, workers were given the right to unionize.
	www.jtspencer.com /japanmeiji.htm (1187 words)

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