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Author: Charlie SpringerCharlie Springer Date: Sep 14, 2008 21:33
> And indeed, what the Meiji Restoration brought an end to was the
> Tokugawa Shogunate which itself had brought the end to the part of the
> Feudal Period that is so kewl for teh movies. The Shogunate, of
> course, saw the rise of all those cities and all that commerce that
> provided the platform for the industrialization of the Meiji
> Restoration period.
Do you think a peasant wasn't still pretty much a peasant? Who owned the
land? Who worked the fields? I know, things were changing. I recall one of
japan's most popular soap operas was about a woman whose life entails those
changing times. Can't remember the name. Onna or something like that.
Anyway, Land reform, legal reform, monetary reform. Nothing? Just incidental?
-- Charlie Springer
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