Meiji Restoration (Japanese name: めぃじぃしんんんん) refers to the top-down, capitalist, totally westernized and modernized reform movement that Japan carried out in the late 1960s from 65438 to 2009. This reform began in 1868 when Emperor Meiji (めぃじてんのぅ) established a new government, and the Japanese government carried out modern political reforms and established a constitutional monarchy.

Economically, we should carry out "industrialized production", learn from European and American technologies, carry out a wave of industrialization, advocate "civilization", Europeanize social life, and vigorously develop education. This reform has made Japan the first country in Asia to embark on the road of industrialization and gradually become one of the world powers. This is the beginning of Japan's modernization and an important turning point in Japan's modern history.

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/kloc-in Asia in the middle of the 0/9th century, Japan was in the last shogunate-Tokugawa shogunate era. The powerful Tokugawa shogunate carried out a "lock-in policy" against foreign countries, forbidding foreign missionaries, businessmen and civilians to enter Japan, forbidding foreign Japanese to return to China, and even forbidding the manufacture of ships suitable for ocean navigation. During this period, trade is only allowed with China, North Korea and the Netherlands, and only in Nagasaki. In addition, the Tokugawa shogunate also banned the spread of Christianity. ?

Before the Meiji Restoration in Japan, cottage industries or handicraft workshops began to appear in some economically developed areas. The "employee" system appeared in the workshop, and the seeds of capitalism appeared. Its appearance impacted the feudal natural economy and fundamentally shook the ruling foundation of the shogunate.

With the rapid expansion of the commodity economy, the strength of the merchant class, especially the financial operators, has gradually increased. Businessmen felt that the old system seriously restricted their development, so they began to call for the reform of the political system. Bourgeois celebrities (princes), warriors and businessmen who demanded system reform formed a political alliance, and together with grassroots farmers who opposed the shogunate, they formed the power base of "anti-shogunate".