The Meiji Restoration of Japan

Mathew Perry went to the coasts of Japan to trick the Japanese, pretending that he was "negotiating". Japan did not desire to trade with any other nation/country as they were in isolation. Commodore Perry wasn't negotiating as much as bulling Japan. He brought a naval force to Japan that did not use sails. He did this to impress the Japanese, and it worked. The Japanese had never seen anything like them.During the Meiji Restoration Era, the Japanese economy began to build up it's industrial base. It revised by basing itself on the western model. The Japanese government sent out investigators to learn the ways of European and American industries. In 1889, the Japanese government adopted a constitution based on the British and German models of parliamentary democracy. During this same period, railroads were constructed, a banking system was started and the samurai system was disbanded. Japan had successfully made the transition to a western style industrialized state. When the Japanese Constitution was adopted in 1889, Japan, was able to make the transition to a world power through its expansion of colonial holdings. Eventually the Japanese even learned to adapt and learn how to make things better such as the regular bomb into a torpedo from the air, such as the ones they used in pearl harbor. This shows the technology in japan and how the Japanese advanced through the Meiji restoration of japan