Mutsuhito's Impact On Japan

The Meiji Restoration or the “enlightened rule”, led by Mutsuhito, was Japan’s big shot at industrializing. Mutsuhito decided that the best way to modernize was to send diplomats around the world to find things they could implement into their own country. Japan’s military was inspired from the strong Germans and also Britain’s navy fleet. They borrowed the US’s public education system too. Soon with the railroads and increased production of resources, Japan became a force to be reckoned with. Japan impacted itself and the rest of the world in a big way. To the rest of the world, Japan started as a country they could bully. Japan was forced to open its ports and let other countries trade. They realized that they really had to get industrialized