The Meiji Restoration 🇯🇵 the Rapid Modernization of Japan (History of Japan)

This episode will explain the Meiji Restoration, how Tokugawa Japan after an isolationist period known as "Sakoku" underwent a Rapid Modernization.

➡️ After 214 years of Sakoku, Japan was opened up by Commodore Matthew C Perry ushering in a new Era. The Meiji Restoration was the rapid modernization of Tokugawa Japan into the modern Era.

➡️ The Tokugawa Shogunate system would not survive the Bakumatsu period and would fall as a result of the Boshin war. The Samurai would make a last stand during the Satsuma Rebellion. The incredible industrialization of Japan under Emperor Meiji would change all aspects of Japan and would lead to the creation of the Empire of Japan.