History

Meiji Restoration

The Restoration That Did Not Restore The shogunate was gone. No more Tokugawa ruler. No more Edo as the shogun 's city. No more closed country keeping the world at a distance. In 1868, a young emperor became the face of a new Japan. …

Portrait of Emperor Meiji as a young man in Western-style military dress uniform with gold epaulettes and medals

A letter from Japan, worth slowing down for.

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