Meiji Restoration/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Meiji Restoration.

Beginning in 1868, the major change in Japanese governance coming from the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate not only restoration of the monarchy as the real Head of State, but also the modernization of the form of government from feudal to technical-bureaucratic, the end of the samurai class and the development of a national military