The Meiji Restoration

WHAT AND WHERE WAS THE MEIJI RESTORATION?

In 1868, the feudal military dictatorship that had been in power in Japan for nearly seven centuries, the shogunate, came to an end in a swift political coup. The country returned to imperial rule, at least nominally. After the restoration came the Meiji period, which lasted until 1912 – an era of sweeping social, economic and political changes that modernised