Industrial Age · East Asia · Politics

1871

Iwakura Mission

December 23, 1871

The Meiji government sent half its senior officials - including the foreign minister Iwakura - on a two-year tour of the United States and Europe, studying everything from factories to prisons. They came home convinced that Japan had to modernize or be colonized. The wholesale Westernization of Meiji institutions dates from this trip.

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Before and after in East Asia

Before: April 28, 1870: Dogali Falls in Japan's Reforms
After: February 27, 1876: Japan Forces Open Korea

Before and after in Politics

Before: September 20, 1870: Rome Taken by Italy
After: November 5, 1872: Anthony Votes Illegally

Era

Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Iwakura Mission