Meiji Era Questions

[mystikbliss]

I'm doing an essay for school and I am having a hard time finding specific military advancements that brought japan during the meiji era to become a world power status. Like what guns/ships. did they have tanks or planes etc.
The same problem applies to the specifics of the change in economy and government. Anyone know any facts that can answer some of these?

 

[amea_gari]

Try this link

This link might help a little. If I remember correctly it talks about the Choshu smuggling in guns just prior to the restoration, which would have been the first guns in Japan, en masse.

MEIJI

 

[Hiroyuki Nagashima]

A database of an outline of the Meiji era.
http://db.gakken.co.jp/jiten/ma/606940.htm

Slogan "FUKOKU KYOUHEI" (a measure to enrich and strengthen a country) of the Meiji era
http://db.gakken.co.jp/jiten/ha/513680.htm

A homepage of a theme park of Meiji
http://anny.kinjo-u.ac.jp/~nakata/Nakata/Data/Nextstep/Tsusin.htm

The Japanese Navy
http://www.tabiken.com/history/doc/O/O017R100.HTM

Japan Army
http://www.tabiken.com/history/doc/O/O074L100.HTM

 

[mystikbliss]

umm...I can't read japanese =/
ty though

 

[Hiroshi66]

Politically - you can write about the similarities between Meiji Japan and Wilhelmian Germany. How both were supposed constitutional states with a constitution but which had a strong nationalistic feeling about the monarchy.

 

[hungtakwai]

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