Meiji Restoration was a bourgeois reform movement in Japan, which changed from a feudal society to a capitalist society.

Since the19th century, peasant and citizen riots have occurred continuously in urban and rural areas of Japan, and the shogunate system centered on the edo shogunate has been shaken. The American fleet arrived in Japan on 1853, and forced the shogunate to sign the Kanagawa Treaty the following year, and forced it to sign a trade treaty on 1858. Holland, Russia, Britain and France signed contracts one after another, and the authority of the shogunate was lost.

The samurai subordinate to the southwest vassal States launched the movement of respecting the king and resisting foreign countries, which developed into the reform movement.

1867, under the planning of satsuma and Changzhou, the imperial court of Kyoto issued a secret imperial edict, accompanied by shogunate general Tokugawa Yoshinobu, and awarded it.

1868 65438+ 10. On 3 October, Emperor Mu Ren (Emperor Meiji) issued a grand decree to restore the king and abolish the shogunate system. 1 At the end of the year, the reformist army defeated the shogunate army near Kyoto. In May, the reformist army entered Edo (later renamed Tokyo). 10 year10.23, the Yuan Dynasty changed to Meiji, hence the name of the Reform Movement of 1898.

1869, the membership of every San Francisco edition was returned. 187 1 year, abolishing feudal counties and establishing centralized government. The following year, the Meiji government lifted the ban on land sales and implemented the local tax reform from 65438 to 0873.