The emperor monopolized the power.
/kloc-In the mid-9th century, Japan was still in a feudal society with a small-scale peasant economy. The emperor had no authority, and the power was in the hands of the Tokugawa shogunate, the third feudal military regime.
The "closed door" policy pursued by the Tokugawa shogunate locked Japan's door to the world. Only businessmen from China and the Netherlands can do business in Nagasaki, the only open port, and citizens lose their freedom of belief.
Long-term oppression aroused people's desire for freedom, which led to? Behind the curtain? Exercise.
After a series of coups and bloodshed, the new government headed by the emperor issued five vows, and then successively issued orders to scrap knives.
He introduced advanced industrial technology from the west and carried out reforms in education, military affairs, transportation, justice and religion that were suitable for the development of Japanese society at that time.
The Meiji government deified the absolute authority of the emperor politically, and the emperor's leadership over society was unprecedented.
Reforming the government has talents who can lead the way.
Different from the Reform Movement of 1898, Kang Youwei did not play much role after initiating the Reform Movement of 1898. Even Yuan Shikai was persuaded by Tan Sitong. During the Meiji Restoration, like Iwakura Tomomi, the right minister, he visited Europe and America and introduced advanced western technology. No one shouted slogans in vain.
After defeating the shogunate, power has fallen into the hands of Emperor Meiji. Moreover, unlike China's thought of "learning from the middle school as the body and learning from the west as the application", Japan was completely westernized and changed to a constitutional monarchy, which made Japan rise rapidly.
Reform the cohesion of knowledge.
Facing the critical moment of the country's survival, the Yamato nation can promote unity and combine into a powerful force, and its influence far exceeds that of traditional conservatives. In contrast, the Reform Movement of 1898 launched by China after the failure of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 began to make some moves in the system reform, but the cohesion of the reform was obviously insufficient, and eventually it was inevitable that the conservatives would strangle it and ended in failure.
Therefore, the success of Meiji Restoration was due to the factors of system and national consciousness.