Emperor Meiji
Emperor of Japan from 1867 until 1912
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He reigned as Japan vaulted from feudal isolation to empire in a single lifetime. When Mutsuhito became emperor in 1867, samurai still ruled decentralized domains under a shogun; by his death in 1912, Japan had defeated both China and Russia, annexed Taiwan and Korea, and built the state machinery of a modern power.
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Mutsuhito was born in 1852 into a Japan sealed by the Tokugawa shogunate, its 270 domains locked under feudal rule. The forced opening to the West in 1854 set domestic pressure building, and when his father Emperor Kōmei died in 1867, samurai from Chōshū and Satsuma fought the Boshin War to dismantle the shogunate and restore imperial power in the young emperor's name. The Meiji Restoration of 1868 proclaimed the empire and began the transformation: the Charter Oath that year, the Constitution in 1889, the Cabinet in 1885, the Diet in 1890, all shaped by the oligarchs called the genrō. Japan's…
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