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The Meiji Restoration - With the Imperial victory in the Boshin War, and the crushing of rebellion after minor rebellion throughout the country as unruly samurai were brought to heel and integrated into the new system, the Emperor Meiji, who now wielded a centralized power not seen since the mythological emperors far back into Japanese history, began to evaluate his priorities. It had been through the adoption of a new model army that victory over the remnants of the shogunate had been achieved, and the Emperor, his privy council, and his Imperial Diet began the process of economic, socio-political, and military modernization that would become known as the Meiji Restoration. After a jet-lag of nearly three hundred years, and only maintaining contact with the outside world through the Dutch and Portuguese in controlled circumstances, Japan walked into the outside world and beheld a great change. Not only had the world modernized, the world had been hollowed. Below the surface, the great empires now take their slice of the melon. The emperor intends to bring his own knife to the table, soon enough.