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Can the Meiji reforms be seen as a revolution

Can the Meiji reforms be seen as a revolution?

The definition of a revolution; is the overthrow of a government by the governed and/or “a drastic far reaching change in ways of thinking”, and one of the major aims of the Meiji reforms was to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate, after which there was drastic change in social behavior and mentality. ... The Meiji reforms started by a coup d’état on the third of January 1886, which the opposition quickly called the Meiji restoration: giving power back to the emperor.

The “restoration” or, reforms, did not end on that day in1868.


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