- Economic Reforms
- Infrastructure
- State-sponsored railroads, telegraphs, and steamship service!
- Education
- State-sponsored public education!
- Western-styled universities
- Focusing on science and technology not simply because nobody gave a shit about the arts and philosophy, but because of industrialization and military
- Industry
- State-sponsored pilot programs and military factories!
- ZAIBATSU
- Large corporations
- Owned by a few wealthy industrialists
- Worked closely with the government
- Meiji Reforms
- Positive
- Conquer Korea! (1910)
- Extraterritorially abolished (really good for Japanese because now foreigns won't be excused from Japanese laws and not get tried at American courts)
- Defeat the Chinese (1895)
- Defeat the Russians (1905)
- Negative
- Widespread poverty!
- Rural starvation!
- Japan Success v.s. Chinese failures
- Japan successfully Westernizes and reforms cool stuff B)
- China isn't actually flexible enough to do this yo
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