Meiji

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• The way to do this, the Meiji leaders believed, was to become a great power.

  Academic text (1990)

• As during the Meiji Period, Japan's foreign policies and commercial interests became synonymous with national security interests.

  Academic text (1996)

• Progressive Japanese of the Meiji era admired not only Western technology but also modern Western ideas.

  Academic text (1994)

• The Meiji Restoration of 1868 had a profound effect on moral education and student development.

  Academic text (2004)

• Ohsawa was born into a poor samurai family during the Meiji Restoration.

  Blog text (26)

• Japan has not known a wealthy, powerful, confident, and internationalist China since its modernization during the Meiji era.

  Academic text (1998)

• The transformation of the meaning of the emperor was the way the Meiji leaders fashioned their own imperial system after the Western monarchy model.

  Academic text (1991)

• James A. Fujii discusses Japan since the Meiji period, underscoring how notions of the self are often problematically assigned by nationality.

  Academic text (2013)

• Beginning with the overthrow of the feudal, samurai-led system of government, the Meiji Period saw the modernization of Japan through the complete transformation of its "political, economic, and social institutions." Id. at 153-54.

  Academic text (2016)

• The Meiji period transformed Japan into a modern state through significant political and social reforms.

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