Modernisation of Japan during the Meiji Restoration.

"In achieving such a rapid and total modernisation, how much did Japan owe to Western Examples, and how much to its own resources and initiative?" In achieving such a rapid and total modernisation, Japan owed much of its success to Western Examples which were greatly used in their economic, social and political modernisation during the revolutionary Meiji restoration period, which marked the deliberate transformation by Japan and it's leaders in response to the threat posed …

…a result of Japan's modernisation, they now had the respect of the Western imperialist powers, became a world power, and had the power to imperialize and capitalize on other nations. By the time of Emperor Meiji's death and the conclusion of the Meiji Restoration Period in 1912, Japan had strengthened itself in a very short time through modernisation and war, to become a major industrialised nation, an imperialist power and a force to be reckoned with.