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The Meiji Speed Is What I Keep Coming Back To
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2026-05-17 12:33:38
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Seventeen years between Perry's black ships and the Meiji Restoration. Thirty more years to defeat Russia. That's one lifetime. The Iwakura Mission detail always gets me — sending 48 officials on an 18-month study tour with a specific mandate to understand Western institutions and bring back what works. That's not panicked copying. That's analytical state capacity deciding what to learn and what to keep. Whether Meiji Japan's nationalism eventually became its catastrophe is a different question. The forty-year transformation itself remains one of history's most striking examples of deliberate institutional change. Most states faced with comparable pressure just fragmented.
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